Walters v. State

Appellant, Travis Walters, appeals the trial court’s summary denial of his motion to correct illegal sentence filed pursuant to Rule 3.800(a), Florida Rules of Criminal Procedure. Walters also has a direct appeal of his judgment and sentence pending in this court. The issue we must resolve is whether the trial court had jurisdiction to hear the motion. Rule 3.800(a) expressly prohibits the filing of a motion during the pendency of a direct appeal. Therefore, the trial court lacked jurisdiction to rule on the motion because the motion was unauthorized. See Smith v. State, 82 So.3d 1185, 1186…