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WILLIS v. STATE

No. 4D04-1420.

913 So.2d 1259 (2005)

Tommy WILLIS, Appellant, v. STATE of Florida, Appellee.

District Court of Appeal of Florida, Fourth District.

November 16, 2005.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Carey Haughwout, Public Defender, and Ian Seldin, Assistant Public Defender, West Palm Beach, for appellant.

Charles J. Crist, Jr., Attorney General, Tallahassee, and Georgina Jimenez-Orosa, Assistant Attorney General, West Palm Beach, for appellee.

PER CURIAM.

We reverse appellant's habitual offender sentence, because the state did not offer into evidence any proof of appellant's prior convictions or of the date of his release, evidence essential to the imposition of habitual offender status. See Osborne v. State, 820 So.2d 1046 (Fla. 4th DCA 2002). We reject the state's argument that this issue was not preserved on appeal. The issue was raised in a motion to correct...

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