Supreme Court of Florida

A trial court may sentence a defendant to a term in excess of the statutory maximum for an offense committed after October 1, 1998, where the lowest permissible sentence under the code exceeds the statutory maximum.

Appellate Information

• Decided 01/30/2003
• Published 01/30/2003

Judges

• WELLS, J.

Court

• Supreme Court of Florida

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Caroline E. Kravath,Florida Institutional Legal Services, Inc., Gainesville, FL, for Petitioner.


• For Appellees:
  
• Charles J. Crist, Jr., Attorney General, and Kellie A. Nielan and Pamela J. Koller, Assistant Attorneys General, Daytona Beach, FL, for Respondent.