Cooper v. State

This case returns to us from the Florida Supreme Court, which quashed Cooper v. State, 235 So.3d 1034 (Fla. 5th DCA 2018), and directed us to reconsider the case in light of its decision in Eustache v. State, 248 So.3d 1097 (Fla. 2018).

*559State v. Cooper, 43 Fla. L. Weekly S508, 2018 WL 5116564 (Fla. Oct. 19, 2018). Upon reconsideration, we issue the following opinion.

In 2009, Cooper was charged with aggravated battery, a second-degree felony, and was sentenced under the Youthful Offender Act. See § 958.04, Fla. Stat. (2009). The Act subjects an offender to a maximum incarceration period of six…