State v. Forde

Full title: STATE OF FLORIDA, Appellant, v. BURTHLAND FORDE, Appellee

Court: District Court of Appeal of Florida, Second District

Date published: Aug 11, 1999

742 So. 2d 349 (Fla. Dist. Ct. App. 1999)

Opinion

No. 98-04495.

Opinion filed August 11, 1999.

Appeal from the Circuit Court for Pinellas County; Robert E. Beach, (Senior) Judge.

Robert A. Butterworth, Attorney General, Tallahassee, and Wendy Buffington, Assistant Attorney General, Tampa, for Appellant.

James Marion Moorman, Public Defender, and Allyn Giambalvo, Assistant Public Defender, Bartow, for Appellee.

PER CURIAM.

We affirm the sentence imposed. See State v. Cotton, 728 So.2d 251 (Fla. 2d DCA 1998) (holding that the trial court has discretion to determine whether a defendant should be sentenced as a Prison Releasee Reoffender under the Prison Releasee Reoffender Act). See also Coleman v. State, 24 Fla. L. Weekly D1324 (Fla. 2d DCA June 4, 1999); State v. Cowart, 24 Fla. L. Weekly D1085 (Fla. 2d DCA Apr. 28, 1999); State v. Wise, 24 Fla. L. Weekly D657 (Fla. 4th DCA Mar. 10, 1999). We acknowledge and certify conflict withWoods v. State, 24 Fla. L. Weekly D831 (Fla. 1st DCA Mar. 26, 1999), and McKnight v. State, 727 So.2d 314 (Fla. 3d DCA 1999).

Affirmed; conflict certified.

THREADGILL, A.C.J., GREEN and STRINGER, JJ., Concur.