Reed v. State

BADALAMENTI, Judge.

A jury convicted James Reed on eleven counts of animal fighting and baiting (a third-degree felony) and eleven counts of animal cruelty (a misdemeanor). See §§ 828.12(1), .122(2)(a), Fla. Stat. (2011). The circuit court sentenced Reed to an aggregate term of twenty-five years’ imprisonment, to be followed by thirty years’ probation, because the court found that Reed posed a’danger to the public. See- § 775.082(10) Fla. Stat. (2011). After careful review and the benefit of oral argument, we hold that the circuit court’s findings were inadequate to sentence Reed to a state…