Legal Opinion

Colwell v. State

District Court of Appeal of Florida

Decided July 5, 1985No. 84-1156PublishedCited by 2 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

SHARP, Judge.

Colwell appeals after being resentenced upon remand from this court. See Colwell v. State, 448 So.2d 540 (Pla. 5th DCA 1984). He was originally sentenced in Case Number 77-755-CFA to concurrent terms of life' on a burglary charge and one year on a battery charge. In Case Number 79-24-CFA, he was sentenced to life on another burglary charge and concurrent fifteen year terms for two sexual batteries.

This court ruled that the life sentence in Case Number 79-24-CFA was unlawful because excessive;1 and on remand the trial court granted Colwell’s 3.850 motion to vacate the life…

2Cases cited5 opinions

  1. North Carolina v. PearceSupreme Court of the United States · 1969
  2. Fasenmyer v. StateSupreme Court of Florida · 1984
  3. Herring v. StateDistrict Court of Appeal of Florida · 1982
  4. Colwell v. StateDistrict Court of Appeal of Florida · 1984
  5. Cone v. StateDistrict Court of Appeal of Florida · 1985

3Cited by2 opinions

  1. Williams v. StateDistrict Court of Appeal of Florida · 1996
  2. Finethy v. StateDistrict Court of Appeal of Florida · 2007

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