Legal Opinion

Higgins v. State

District Court of Appeal of Florida

Decided January 5, 2005No. 4D04-1699PublishedCited by 4 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

890 So.2d 519 (2005)

Chestley HIGGINS, Appellant,

v.

STATE of Florida, Appellee.

No. 4D04-1699.

District Court of Appeal of Florida, Fourth District.

January 5, 2005.

Chestley Higgins, Wewahitchka, pro se.

Charles J. Crist, Jr., Attorney General, Tallahassee, and August A. Bonavita, Assistant Attorney General, West Palm Beach, for appellee.

HAZOURI, J.

Chestley Higgins appeals the summary denial of his rule 3.800(a) motion to correct illegal sentence. We agree he was not entitled to correction of his two life sentences for counts I and II, challenged in ground one of his motion, but we reverse and…

2Cases cited4 opinions

  1. Heggs v. StateSupreme Court of Florida · 2000
  2. Leonard v. StateSupreme Court of Florida · 2000
  3. State v. TrippSupreme Court of Florida · 1994
  4. Perry v. StateDistrict Court of Appeal of Florida · 1983

3Cited by4 opinions

  1. Hutchinson v. StateDistrict Court of Appeal of Florida · 2008
  2. Trigg v. StateDistrict Court of Appeal of Florida · 2005
  3. Carter v. StateDistrict Court of Appeal of Florida · 2006
  4. King v. StateDistrict Court of Appeal of Florida · 2013

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