Joe v. State

Ernest R. Joe, Jr., appeals his numerous convictions and sentences arising out of a home invasion in August 1992. We affirm Mr. Joe’s convictions, but reverse and remand for resentencing.

The trial court imposed habitual violent felony offender sentences for some of Mr. Joe’s convictions, but erroneously ordered those sentences to run consecutively. Habitual violent felony offender sentences arising from a single criminal episode must run concurrently. Hale v. State, 630 So.2d 521 (Fla.1998), cert. denied, — U.S. —, 115 S.Ct. 278, 180 L.Ed.2d 195 (1994). Next, the trial court correctly…