Whack v. State

Edmond Whack appeals his sentences which were imposed by the trial court after he was found guilty by a jury on two counts of robbery and one count of battery.

Over the objection of defense counsel, the trial court sentenced Mr. Whack to a term of twenty years incarceration as an habitual violent felony offender1 on each of his two robbery convictions and then directed that the first fifteen years of each sentence would be served in accordance with the Prison Releasee Reoffender Act.2 Mr. Whack raises two claims of error in relation to these sentences, one of which has merit.

Mr. Whack first…