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ANTHONY CORBITT, APPELLANT, v. STATE OF FLORIDA, APPELLEE.

PER CURIAM.

While we affirm appellant's sentences for robbery with a firearm and burglary while armed with a firearm, the State concedes, and we agree, that appellant's habitual felony offender sentence for kidnapping with a firearm must be reversed. Appellant committed the offense in 1991, when the habitual offender statute did not provide for the enhancement of life felonies. See § 775.084(4), Fla. Stat. (1991); Lamont v. State, 610 So.2d 435, 439 (Fla. 1992). In resentencing appellant on remand, the trial court may exceed the sentencing guidelines if there are valid grounds to do so. See Grant v. State, 677 So.2d 45 (Fla. 3d DCA 1996).

Under the 1991 statutes, kidnapping is a first degree felony which is reclassified as a life felony when a firearm is used. See §§ 775.087(1)(a), 787.01(2), Fla. Stat. (1991).

AFFIRMED IN PART; REVERSED AND REMANDED IN PART.

STONE, C.J., POLEN and STEVENSON, JJ., concur.

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CORBITT v. STATE
(Aug 20, 1997)