HUTCHINS v. STATE (2020)

District Court of Appeal of Florida, Third District.

Dennis HUTCHINS, Appellant, v. The STATE of Florida, Appellee.

No. 3D20-893

Decided: November 18, 2020

Before EMAS, C.J., and FERNANDEZ and LINDSEY, JJ.

Dennis Hutchins, in proper person. Ashley Moody, Attorney General, and Asad Ali, Assistant Attorney General, for appellee.

Affirmed. See Cotto v. State, 139 So. 3d 283, 289 (Fla. 2014) (holding that the prison releasee reoffender (“PRR”) statute “does not increase the maximum period of incarceration to which a person may be sentenced. Rather, under the PRR statute, only the maximum allowable sentence may be imposed.”) See also Sims v. State, 286 So. 3d 292, 293 (Fla. 4th DCA 2019) (holding that State v. Lewars, 259 So. 3d 793 (Fla. 2018) (which held, that under the PRR statute, “release from a state correctional facility operated by the Department of Corrections or a private vendor” does not include a county jail) did not apply retroactively, and thus defendant's PRR sentences for robbery and burglary were not illegal); Wilson v. State, 279 So. 3d 756 (Fla. 2d DCA 2019) (same).

PER CURIAM.

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