Home -> Law Blog Directory -> Criminal Law Blogs -> Florida Criminal Law Opinions

Criminal Law

: Florida Criminal Law Opinions

Alvarado v. State, No. 4D07-1670 (Fla. App. 4/29/2009) (Fla. App., 2009)

By admin

EDWARD ALVARADO, Appellant, v. STATE OF FLORIDA, Appellee. No. 4D07-1670. No. 4D07-2774. District Court of Appeal of Florida, Fourth District. April 29, 2009.Consolidated appeals from the Circuit Court for the Seventeenth Judicial Circuit, Broward County, Joel T. Lazarus, Judge, L.T. Case No. 04-5825 CF10A & 05-9472 CF10A. Carey Haughwout, Public Defender, and Ian Seldin, Assistant Public Defender, West Palm Beach, for appellant. Bill McCollum, Attorney General, Tallahassee, and Mark J. Hamel, Assistant Attorney General, West Palm Beach, for appellee. DAMOORGIAN, J. Edward Alvarado appeals his prison sentences emanating from his convictions for sexual battery on a child under twelve years of age and lewd and lascivious molestation. Alvarado argues that the trial court erred in sentencing him as a habitual violent felony offender on the ground that his prior felony conviction for aggravated battery on a pregnant woman did not qualify as a violent felony offense under section 775...continue to full post

Full post as published by Florida Criminal Law Opinions on April 29, 2009 (boomark / email).