Sweeney v. State

Appellant Patrick Sweeney appeals a trial court order denying his motion to correct illegal sentence filed pursuant to Florida Rule of Criminal Procedure 3.800(a), which did not correct an apparent scrivener’s error. The record demonstrated a scrivener’s error in the citation to section 775.0823, Florida Statutes (1991), in appellant’s written sentence, when the correct statute was section 775.0825. The State’s response filed in the trial court conceded that the court should correct the statute number on appellant’s sentence. The trial court previously amended the judgment of conviction to…