EUSTACHE v. STATE (2011)

Robin EUSTACHE, Appellant, v. STATE of Florida, Appellee.

No. 4D11–3636.

Decided: November 23, 2011

Robin Eustache, Okeechobee, pro se. No response required for appellee.

We affirm the trial court's denial of appellant's Rule 3.800(a) motion to correct illegal sentence. Pursuant to section 958.14, Florida Statutes, following appellant's substantive violation of youthful offender probation, which he admitted, the court sentenced him to fifteen years in prison for robbery with a firearm. The sentence is within the statutory maximum for this offense, authorized by the youthful offender statute, and not illegal. See id. The court did not revoke appellant's youthful offender status,¹ so his reliance on Blacker v. State, 49 So.3d 785 (Fla. 4th DCA 2010), is misplaced.

FOOTNOTES

1. “A defendant's status as a youthful offender matters in part because it affects the defendant's classification within the prison system and the programs and facilities to which the defendant can be assigned.” Blacker, 49 So.3d at 787 n. 2.

PER CURIAM.

DAMOORGIAN, GERBER and CONNER, JJ., concur.

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