Salters v. State

This is the third appearance in this court involving sentencing. After a previous re*978versal of the sentence by the supreme court in Salters v. State, 758 So.2d 667, 671 (Fla.2000), the case fell in front of a successor judge for de novo sentencing. The successor judge refused to read the record to familiarize himself with the case before deciding on the sentence, however, and imposed the maximum sentence allowable as a violent career criminal. On review we reversed the newly imposed sentence. Salters v. State, 802 So.2d 501 (Fla. 4th DCA 2001). Upon remand the case was returned to the same…