Ledea v. State

The defendant, Anthony Ledea, appeals his convictions for possession of cocaine, aggravated fleeing, and two counts of assault, and the sentence imposed for the possession offense. Although we affirm the convictions, we reverse the sentence imposed for possession of cocaine, and remand with instructions to the trial court to delete the habitual offender designation for that offense, and to reduce the ten-year sentence for that offense to a sentence no greater than the statutory maximum sentence of five years.

The defendant raises two issues in this appeal: (1) the trial court abused its…