Legal Opinion

Washington v. State

District Court of Appeal of Florida

Decided December 29, 1999No. 99-01021PublishedCited by 2 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

BLUE, Acting Chief Judge.

Ronald Washington a/k/a Ronald Watson contends he improperly received a habitual offender sentence for possession of cocaine. We agree and reverse.

Washington appeared for resentencing on one count of possession of cocaine and one count of sale of cocaine after remand from this court. See Watson v. State, 718 So.2d 253 (Fla. 2d DCA 1998).1 Unfortunately, the trial judge, who was the original sentencing judge, was so busy complaining (with eheerleading from the prosecutor) about this court’s opinion and the individual judges of this court on that panel that he got the…

2Cases cited2 opinions

  1. Livingston v. StateDistrict Court of Appeal of Florida · 1996
  2. Watson v. StateDistrict Court of Appeal of Florida · 1998

3Cited by2 opinions

  1. Owens v. StateDistrict Court of Appeal of Florida · 2001
  2. Tyler v. StateDistrict Court of Appeal of Florida · 2002

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