Slade v. State

I agree that appellant’s conviction for resisting an officer with violence and battery on a law enforcement officer should be affirmed. However, I would reverse appellant’s habitual felony offender sentence, because as the state concedes, the state failed to admit into evidence certified copies of appellant’s prior convictions and the court files relied upon by the court in determining that appellant qualified as a habitual felony offender. See Osborne v. State, 820 So.2d 1046, 1047-48 (Fla. 4th DCA 2002); Mitchell v. State, 780 So.2d 282, 283 (Fla. 4th DCA 2001).

I interpret Osborne as…