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reversing and remanding where defendant's letter to State indicating that he would plead guilty in exchange for concessions was erroneously admitted
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No. 2D99-3002.
June 9, 2000.
Appeal from the Circuit Court, Pinellas County, Richard A. Luce, J.
James Marion Moorman, Public Defender, and Megan Olson, Assistant Public Defender, Bartow, for Appellant.
Robert A. Butterworth, Attorney General, Tallahassee, and Wendy Buffington, Assistant Attorney General, Tampa, for Appellee.
The defendant, Robert McCray, appeals the trial court's judgment and sentence adjudicating him guilty of burglary (count 1) and petit theft (count 2) and sentencing him as a habitual felony offender and prison releasee reoffender to fifteen years of imprisonment on count 1 and to time served on count 2. We reverse.
McCray contends that the trial court erred by admitting into evidence the following letter written by him and sent to the state attorney shortly before trial.
Yes! I would like to make a change of plea, I'll plea guilty to both counts, only