Wright v. State

We affirm appellant’s convictions for sexual battery, aggravated battery, and trespass. However, the trial court improperly required appellant to serve a minimum mandatory term of thirty years of his life sentence for the sexual battery. § 775.-082(3)(a), Fla.Stat. (1981). The court also failed to provide reasons for retaining jurisdiction over appellant’s sentence. The court must either relinquish its retention of jurisdiction over one-third of the sentence or state its justification for retention with individual particularity, as required by Section 947.16(3)(a), Florida Statutes (1981).…