Johnson v. State

Defendant filed this case as an appeal from a trial court order denying a successive motion to correct an illegal sentence. See Fla. R.Crim. P. 3.800(a). Johnson’s sentence had been affirmed on direct appeal. Since then he has raised this same issue of illegality in three separate attempts, all of which we. have rejected. Technically the sentence is not an illegal sentence. 1 Under settled law, he would be proeedurally barred from raising errors regarding the imposition of the sentence because the law of this case is that the sentence is valid. The trial court so held in denying his latest…