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Jean Mentor, Appellant, v. The State of Florida, Appellee. No. 3D08-3092 No. 04-29661 B

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Jean Mentor, Appellant, v.The State of Florida, Appellee. No. 3D08-3092No. 04-29661 B Third District Court Of Appeals July Term, A.D., 2010Opinion filed September 15, 2010. Carlos J. Martinez, Public Defender, and Amy Weber and Stephen J. Weinbaum, Assistant Public Defenders, for appellant. Bill McCollum, Attorney General, and Rolando A. Soler, Assistant Attorney General, for appellee. An appeal from the Circuit Court for Miami-Dade County, Marisa Tinkler Mendez, Judge. Before CORTINAS and LAGOA, JJ., and SCHWARTZ, Senior Judge. PER CURIAM. Jean Mentor appeals his convictions and sentence for second-degree murder, armed robbery and armed burglary.1 We affirm Mentor’s convictions without comment. However, we agree with Mentor’s contention that his sentence must be Page 2 vacated because the trial court impermissibly considered his protestation of innocence in determining his sentence...continue to full post

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