DAVID BURKE, APPELLANT,
v.
STATE OF FLORIDA, APPELLEE

Fla. 4th DCA | 1999-06-23
No. 98-2461
DELL, POLEN and FARMER, JJ.,' concur.
734 So. 2d 1175 Florida District Court of Appeal, Fourth District (1999) Positive Treatment
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Opinion of the Court
PER CURIAM.

PER CURIAM.

David Burke timely appeals his convictions and habitual offender sentences for five counts of burglary of a dwelling, one count of burglary of a conveyance, three, counts of grand theft, and one count of felony petit theft. We affirm appellant’s convictions and sentences for all counts except wfe reverse his habitual offender sentence for felony petit 'theft. See § 812.014, Fla. Stat. (1995); Nelson v. State, 719 So. 2d 1230, 1231 (Fla. 1st DCA 1998); Ridley v. State, 702 So. 2d 559 (Fla. 2d DCA 1997). We' remand with instructions to vacate appellant’s habitual offender sentence for felony petit theft and for resentencing on this conviction.

AFFIRMED IN PART; REVERSED IN PART and REMANDED.

DELL, POLEN and FARMER, JJ.,' concur.


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