Supreme Court of Florida

For defendants whose initial briefs were filed after the effective date of Florida Rule of Criminal Procedure 3.800(b)(2), failure to preserve a fundamental sentencing error by motion under rule 3.800(b), or by objection during the sentencing hearing, forecloses them from raising the error on direct appeal.

Appellate Information

• Decided 06/12/2003
• Published 06/12/2003

Judges

• PARIENTE, J.

Court

• Supreme Court of Florida

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Nancy A. Daniels, Public Defender, and Kathleen Stover, Assistant Public Defender, Second Judicial Circuit, Tallahassee, Florida, for Petitioner.


• For Appellees:
  
• Charles J. Crist, Jr., Attorney General, James W. Rogers, Tallahassee Bureau Chief, Criminal Appeals, and Trisha E. Meggs, Assistant Attorney General, Tallahassee, Florida, for Respondent.