Kenitra Monae Casper v. State of Florida

Casper has twice raised viable claims as to the legality of her sentence, leaving me with doubt as to whether the proper course is to deny relief.

In her direct appeal, Casper’s legal papers breathed not a word that the sentencing process resulting in a twelve-year prison sentence — more than twelve times the sanction her scoresheet tabulated — should be reversed due to the trial court’s consideration of impermissible sentencing factors, including commentary on her truthfulness (which would be error), his belief that the sentencing statute ought to be changed to increase the score for Casper’s…