Sanders v. State

Wardell M. Sanders [“Sanders”] appeals the summary denial of this third Rule 3.800(a) motion to correct an illegal sentence. Sanders pled no contest in 1998 to an August 1996 lewd and lascivious assault upon a child, a second-degree felony under section 800.04(1), Florida Statutes. He was sentenced on April 2, 1998, to 87.3 months, followed by five years of sex-offender probation. No direct appeal was filed.

He subsequently sought a writ of mandamus in this court, asking us to order the trial court to rescind the order entered at sentencing designating him a sexual predator. He explained in…