Florida District Courts of Appeal, 1994

Reeves v. State

Reeves v. State
Florida District Courts of Appeal · Decided August 24, 1994 · Anstead, Klein, Mickle, Stephan
641 So. 2d 201; 1994 Fla. App. LEXIS 8335; 1994 WL 457279 (Southern Reporter, Second Series)

Reeves v. State

Opinion of the Court

PER CURIAM.

AFFIRMED.

KLEIN, J. and MICKLE, STEPHAN P., Associate Judge, concur. ANSTEAD, J., concurs specially with opinion.

Concurring Opinion

ANSTEAD, Judge,

concurring specially.

I concur in the affirmance, including my agreement that appellant has not demonstrated that the trial judge who sentenced appellant as an habitual offender was “overruling” an earlier sentencing order by another judge on the more serious counts that had been severed for trial. The earlier sentencing order contained no adjudication of appellant as an habitual offender. The appellant does not challenge the authority of the second judge to impose a separate consecutive sentence on the severed counts. Rather, she challenges only the habitual offender adjudication.

My concern, not argued by appellant, is that the two-part sentencing proceeding that occurred here is inconsistent with a central policy of the sentencing guidelines. That policy generally mandates a single sentencing proceeding and disposition on all pending charges arising out of the same incident. Inconsistent outcomes, such as occurred here on the habitual offender issue, could not occur if a single sentencing was conducted. As noted above, this issue has not been raised in this appeal and it is uncertain whether it could be raised in a post-conviction relief proceeding.

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