Supreme Court of Florida
BURGESS v. STATE OF FLORIDA, SC00-1724
A trial court cannot rely on a sworn arrest report in a court file to determine, as a matter of law, that consecutive habitual offender sentences are illegal.
Appellate Information
- Decided 10/17/2002
- Published 10/17/2002
Judges
- HARDING, Senior Justice.
Court
- Supreme Court of Florida
Counsel
- For Appellant:
- James Marion Moorman, Public Defender, and Deborah K. Brueckheimer, Assistant Public Defender, Tenth Judicial Circuit, Bartow, FL, for Petitioner.
- For Appellees:
- Robert A. Butterworth, Attorney General, Robert J. Krauss, Senior Assistant Attorney General, Chief of Criminal Law, and Ronald Napolitano, Assistant Attorney General, Tampa, FL, for Respondent.