CALVIN ANGELO JOHNSON, APPELLANT,
v.
STATE OF FLORIDA, APPELLEE
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[*131] PER CURIAM.
Appellant challenges the habitual violent felony offender sentence imposed after he was convicted of robbery with a weapon and kidnapping with a weapon. On the authority of State v. Rucker, 613 So. 2d 460 (Fla.1993), we find any error in the trial court’s failure to specifically find that appellant’s prior convictions had not been pardoned or set aside to be harmless. Also, on the authority of Tillman v. State, 609 So. 2d 1295 (Fla.1992), Ward v. State, 609 So. 2d 1298 (Fla.1992), and Perkins v. State, 616 So. 2d 9 (Fla.1993), we reject appellant’s constitutional challenge to the habitual offender statute. However, we do agree that the trial court erred in imposing an enhanced sentence for the kidnapping with a weapon offense, which is a life felony pursuant to section 775.087(l)(a), Florida Statutes. Lamont v. State, 610 So. 2d 435 (Fla.1992), and Johnson v. State, 568 So. 2d 519 (Fla. 1st DCA 1990).
AFFIRMED in part, REVERSED in part, and REMANDED for resentencing in accordance with this opinion.
SMITH, ALLEN and WOLF, JJ., concur.
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Houck v. State, 637 So. 2d 298 (Fla. 1st DCA 1994)…life felony. Accordingly, appellant’s kidnapping convictions should have been reclassified to life felonies. The habitual felony offender statute may not be used to enhance a life felony. Lamont v. State, 610 So. 2d 435 (Fla.1992); Johnson v. State, 616 So. 2d 130 (Fla. 1st DCA 1993). Accordingly, as the state correctly concedes, we are constrained to reverse the sentences for the two armed kidnapping convictions, and to remand with directions that the trial court impose guidelines sentences. In all other res…
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- State v. Rucker, 613 So. 2d 460 (Fla. 1993)
- Lamont v. State, 610 So. 2d 435 (Fla. 1992)
- Michael André Funchess v. State, 609 So. 2d 1295 (Fla. 1992)
- Easter v. State, 568 So. 2d 519 (Fla. 1st DCA 1990)
- Isaiah Perkins v. State, 616 So. 2d 9 (Fla. 1993)
- Beaubrum v. State, 616 So. 2d 9 (Fla. 1993)
- Ward v. State, 609 So. 2d 1298 (Fla. 1992)