Supreme Court of Florida

Florida Rule of Criminal Procedure 3.800(a), correction of illegal sentences, applies to habitual offender sentences where the requisite predicate felonies do not exist as a matter of law and the error is apparent from the face of the record.

Appellate Information

• Decided 10/04/2001
• Published 10/04/2001

Judges

• PARIENTE, J.

Court

• Supreme Court of Florida

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Bennett H. Brummer, Public Defender, and Andrew Stanton, Assistant Public Defender, Eleventh Judicial Circuit, Miami, FL, for Petitioner.


• For Appellees:
  
• Robert A. Butterworth, Attorney General, Michael J. Neimand, Bureau Chief Criminal Division, and Lara J. Edelstein, Assistant Attorney General, Fort Lauderdale, FL, for Respondent.