721 So. 2d 360 | Fla. Dist. Ct. App. | 1998
Appellant urges on appeal that his habitual offender sentences are improper because the predicate convictions supporting habitualization were entered on the same day even though these convictions resulted from unrelated offenses in separate cases before different judges.
After the high court’s decision in State v. Barnes, 595 So.2d 22 (Fla.1992), the legislature amended section 775.084(5) to insert the following language:
In order to be counted as a prior felony for purposes of sentencing under this section, the felony must have resulted in a conviction sentenced separately prior to the current offense and sentenced separately from any other felony conviction that is to be counted as a prior felony.
§ 775.084(5), Fla. Stat. (1997). Significantly, the language employed requires the predi
AFFIRMED.