Legal Opinion

Knight v. State

District Court of Appeal of Florida

Decided September 1, 2004No. 4D04-2638PublishedCited by 1 opinion

1Per curiam

Affirmed. The trial court found that appellant’s motion to correct an illegal sentence was successive. We agree that the first ground for relief was successive. The second ground, in which appellant alleges that he could not be sentenced as a habitual felony offender for the delivery of cocaine, was not successive to his prior claims. Nevertheless, the motion was properly denied because that claim was *1082without merit. See, e.g., Adams v. State, 724 So.2d 137 (Fla. 4th DCA 1998); Paul v. State, 830 So.2d 953 (Fla. 5th DCA 2002); Marrero v. State, 741 So.2d 634 (Fla. 3d DCA 1999); Williams v.…

2Cases cited4 opinions

  1. Paul v. StateDistrict Court of Appeal of Florida · 2002
  2. Williams v. StateDistrict Court of Appeal of Florida · 1996
  3. Marrero v. StateDistrict Court of Appeal of Florida · 1999
  4. Adams v. StateDistrict Court of Appeal of Florida · 1998

3Cited by1 opinion

  1. Phoenix v. StateDistrict Court of Appeal of Florida · 2012

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