Rollman v. State

On direct appeal, Errol Austin Rollman seeks specific performance of what he not unreasonably took as the trial court’s promise (in exchange for his plea) to sentence him to no more than ten years’ imprisonment for robbery with a firearm. As we read our supreme court’s decision in Davis v. State, 308 So.2d 27 (Fla.1975), we are obliged to affirm, but we also certify questions of great public importance.

At a hearing on June 12, 2002, the trial judge assured Mr. Rollman, his lawyer and an assistant state attorney (who was not a party to any plea bargain) that, if he entered a plea of nolo…