State v. Keen
| Decision Date | 12 April 2001 |
| Docket Number | No. 1D00-2030.,1D00-2030. |
| Citation | 782 So.2d 528 |
| Parties | STATE of Florida, Appellant, v. Ronald E. KEEN, Appellee. |
| Court | Florida District Court of Appeals |
Robert A. Butterworth, Attorney General, and Thomas H. Duffy, Assistant Attorney General, Tallahassee, for Appellant.
Nancy A. Daniels, Public Defender, and P. Douglas Brinkmeyer, Assistant Public Defender, Tallahassee, for Appellee.
The state challenges the sentence imposed on appellant for the crime of possession of a firearm by a felon. The state correctly asserts that the trial judge erred in sentencing appellant to a term of probation, contrary to section 775.087, Florida Statutes (1999). State v. Haddad, 750 So.2d 139 (Fla. 1st DCA 2000). Accordingly, we reverse and remand with directions that the trial judge resentence appellant consistent with the statutory mandate of a three-year minimum mandatory prison term.
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...See Bundrage v. State, 814 So.2d 1133 (Fla. 2d DCA 2002); see also Cook v. State, 816 So.2d 267 (Fla. 1st DCA 2002); State v. Keen, 782 So.2d 528 (Fla. 1st DCA 2001). The trial court erroneously believed that the minimum mandatory sentence did not apply when a felon was convicted of possess......