Legal Opinion

Gadsen v. State

District Court of Appeal of Florida

Decided October 19, 2001No. 2D01-3638PublishedCited by 4 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

WHATLEY, Acting Chief Judge.

Christopher Gadsen challenges the order of the trial court denying his motion to correct sentence filed pursuant to Florida Rule of Criminal Procedure 3.800(a). We affirm.

Gadsen alleged in his motion that his habitual offender sentences are illegal because his youthful offender convictions could not be used as predicate offenses *911under the habitual offender statute. The trial court properly denied this claim. See Weford v. State, 784 So.2d 1222 (Fla. 3d DCA 2001).

In his motion, Gadsen stated that all his predicate convictions were youthful offender convictions and…

2Cases cited2 opinions

  1. Weford v. StateDistrict Court of Appeal of Florida · 2001
  2. Markens v. StateDistrict Court of Appeal of Florida · 2001

3Cited by4 opinions

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