STATE OF FLORIDA v. MICHAEL NGUYEN LY (2017)

District Court of Appeal of Florida, Fifth District.

STATE OF FLORIDA, Appellant, v. MICHAEL NGUYEN LY, Appellee.

Case No. 5D15-4261

Decided: January 13, 2017

Pamela Jo Bondi, Attorney General, Tallahassee, and Rebecca Rock Mcguigan, Assistant Attorney General, Daytona Beach, for Appellant. Corey Cohen, The Law Office of Corey Cohen, Orlando, for Appellee.

The State appeals the trial court's order withholding adjudication for Michael Nguyen Ly's third-degree felony conviction. The withhold of adjudication was entered after Ly entered a guilty plea to possession of more than twenty grams of cannabis. The State correctly argues that the trial court erroneously withheld adjudication for the third-degree felony because Ly had two or more prior withholdings of adjudication for felonies that did not arise from the same transaction as the current felony offense. See § 775.08435(1)(c)2., Fla. Stat. (2015); State v. Jean, 114 So. 3d 451, 452 (Fla. 4th DCA 2013); State v. Cook, 14 So. 3d 1155, 1156 (Fla. 4th DCA 2009).

Accordingly, we reverse that portion of the judgment and sentence withholding adjudication for the third-degree felony and remand for resentencing.

AFFIRMED, in part; REVERSED, in part; and REMANDED.

PER CURIAM.

TORPY, EVANDER and BERGER, JJ., concur.

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