JERRY M. SANNER, APPELLANT,
v.
STATE OF FLORIDA, APPELLEE

Fla. 4th DCA | 2011-06-29
No. 4D09-2179
Warner, J., Levine, J., Conner, J.
63 So. 3d 934 Florida District Court of Appeal, Fourth District (2011) Positive Treatment
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Synopsis

Appellant's conviction for fleeing and eluding under section 316.1935(3)(a) is reversed because the state failed to prove the patrol vehicle had agency insignia and jurisdictional markings prominently displayed, but the conviction is reduced to a third degree felony under section 316.1935(1), and the habitual offender qualification is affirmed.


Holding

The state's failure to prove that the patrol vehicle had agency insignia and other jurisdictional markings prominently displayed requires reversal of the fleeing and eluding conviction under section 316.1935(3)(a), though the conviction may be reduced to a third degree felony under section 316.1935(1).


Headnotes

[1] A conviction for fleeing and eluding under section 316.1935(3)(a) requires proof that the patrol vehicle had agency insignia and other jurisdictional markings prominently…

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Facts & Procedural History

Appellant was convicted of fleeing and eluding a law enforcement officer and was also qualified as a habitual offender based on prior offenses.…

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Opinion of the Court
PER CURIAM.

On Motion fob Rehearing

PER CURIAM.

We grant appellant’s motion for rehearing, withdraw our previously issued opinion and substitute the following in its place.

Appellant challenges his conviction for fleeing and eluding a law enforcement officer under section 316.1935(3)(a), Florida Statutes (2006), claiming that the state failed to prove an essential element of the crime, namely that a patrol vehicle in the chase had “agency insignia and other jurisdictional markings prominently displayed on the vehicle.... ” We agree that the state failed to put on proof of this statutory element, requiring reversal. See Ers *935 kine v. State, 23 So.3d 1207, 1208-09 (Fla. 3d DCA 2009); Jackson v. State, 818 So.2d 539, 542 (Fla. 2d DCA 2002); Gorsuch v. State, 797 So.2d 649, 650-51 (Fla. 3d DCA 2001). We therefore reverse with directions to reduce the conviction to a third degree felony under 316.1935(1).

We affirm as to appellant’s challenge to his habitual offender qualification offenses, finding that the state sufficiently proved them and that appellant’s attorney conceded that appellant qualified for habitual offender status.

Affirmed in part; reversed in part and remanded for resentencing in accordance with this opinion.

WARNER, LEVINE and CONNER, JJ., concur.


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