Legal Opinion

Burns v. State

District Court of Appeal of Florida

Decided May 13, 1994No. 94-00333PublishedCited by 5 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

637 So.2d 937 (1994)

Richard W. BURNS, Appellant,

v.

STATE of Florida, Appellee.

No. 94-00333.

District Court of Appeal of Florida, Second District.

May 13, 1994.

2Per curiam

Richard W. Burns appeals the denial of his motion to correct an illegal sentence. We reverse.

Burns pled no contest to attempted capital sexual battery and four counts of lewd and lascivious acts on a child. Burns asserts that he entered his plea in exchange for a guideline sentence. The sentencing guidelines called for a sentence of seventeen to twenty two years. The plea agreement called for a sentence of twenty years' prison for count…

3Cases cited2 opinions

  1. McCuiston v. StateDistrict Court of Appeal of Florida · 1987
  2. Spaziano v. StateSupreme Court of Florida · 1989

4Cited by5 opinions

  1. Raley v. StateDistrict Court of Appeal of Florida · 1996
  2. Shaw v. StateDistrict Court of Appeal of Florida · 2001
  3. Johnson v. StateDistrict Court of Appeal of Florida · 2000
  4. Orosco v. StateDistrict Court of Appeal of Florida · 1999
  5. Burnsed v. StateDistrict Court of Appeal of Florida · 2000

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