Opinion
No. 97-2690
Opinion filed May 5, 1999.
An appeal from the Circuit Court for Leon County; J. Lewis Hall, Judge.
Lynn A. Williams, Tallahassee, Attorney for Appellant.
Robert A. Butterworth, Attorney General, and J. Ray Poole, Assistant Attorney General, Tallahassee, Attorneys for Appellee.
The trial court erred in denying the parties an opportunity to present evidence or submissions relevant to sentencing before imposing Whitlow's sentence, as required by rule 3.720(b), Florida Rules of Criminal Procedure. Accordingly, we REVERSE and REMAND for re-sentencing.
ERVIN, BOOTH and BENTON, JJ., CONCUR.