Nawaz v. State

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• holding that the trial court’s apparent consideration of the defendant’s national origin during sentencing amounted to a due process violation and required resentencing by a different judge
• finding that although a defendant challenging a sentencing error must generally file a motion under rule 3.800(b
• finding that fundamental error occurred when the trial court based a sentence partly on an impermissible ground
• noting that a sentencing court’s consideration of an impermissible factor constitutes an error in the process and not a sentencing error
• finding fundamental error where trial court appeared to base sentence partly on defendant’s national origin
• vacating sentence and remanding based on successful assertion “that the trial court considered a constitutionally impermissible factor, namely appellant’s national origin, during the sentencing process”

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