PER CURIAM.
We have for review McKnight v. State, 23 Fla. L. Weekly D2402 (Fla. 1st DCA Oct. 23, 1998), a decision of the First District Court of Appeal certifying conflict with the decision of the Fifth District in Maddox v. State, 708 So.2d 617 (Fla. 5th DCA 1998), approved in part, disapproved in part, 25 Fla. L. Weekly S367 (Fla. May 11, 2000). We have jurisdiction. See art. V, § 3(b)(4), Fla. Const.
McKnight received a ten-year habitual offender sentence for possession of cocaine. A habitual offender sentence for possession of cocaine is expressly prohibited by statute and the sentence imposed exceeds the maximum non-habitual offender sentence permitted for the offense. See McKnight, 23 Fla. L. Weekly at D2402. For the reasons expressed in our opinion in Maddox, we approve the decision of the First District that this constitutes fundamental error correctable during the window period discussed in Maddox.
See also Leonard v. State, 25 Fla. L. Weekly S377, S378 n. 4 (Fla. May 11, 2000) (rejecting State's argument that a fundamental sentencing error should remain uncorrected simply because the erroneous sentence is to be served concurrently with other sentences that are not being challenged).
It is so ordered.
WELLS, C.J., and SHAW, HARDING, PARIENTE, LEWIS and QUINCE, JJ., concur.
ANSTEAD, J., recused.