Williams v. State

Appellant, Thomas E. Williams, pled guilty to second degree murder in case 88-8347 and was sentenced to 45 years in prison as a habitual violent felony offender.

Appellant filed a motion to correct illegal sentence pursuant to Florida Rule of Criminal Procedure 3.800(a), in which he argued that his sentence for second degree murder was illegal because the offense was a life felony, for which the maximum sentence is life or a term of years not exceeding 40. He also argued that his habitual felony offender sentence for second degree murder was illegal because the offense was a life felony, for…