Whitfield v. State

Kenneth Whitfield appeals from the denial of his petition for writ of habeas corpus, in which he challenges his current detention on a February 20, 1998, 30-year habitual violent felony offender (“HVFO”) sentence, imposed on a robbery charge.1 The trial court correctly denied the petition, and we affirm.

Whitfield seems to be confused by the fact that the trial court later imposed a 15-year sentence for a firearm charge in an unrelated case,2 and ordered that sentence to be served “concurrent and coterminous3” with other charges from that case, as well as sentences imposed in other cases —…