Hart v. State

In these two consolidated direct criminal appeals, appellant presents three issues challenging his judgments of conviction and sentences imposed in case number 1D09-2300 for carjacking, and in case number 1D09-2302 for sexual battery, battery, kidnapping, aggravated battery with a deadly weapon and armed robbery. Without diminishing the brutal and terrifying manner in which these crimes were committed, we are constrained to reverse appellant’s convictions, vacate his sentences, and remand for new trials because the trial court abused its discretion in granting the state’s motions to join the…