LaMar v. State

Appellant, Stanford LaMar, appeals a trial court order summarily denying his motion to correct illegal sentence filed pursuant to rule 3.800(a). Appellant challenges his habitual violent felony offender sentence for robbery, a second degree felony, to the extent that it imposed a fifteen year mandatory minimum. The statute provides for a ten year mandatory minimum sentence. See § 775.084(4)(b)2, Fla. Stat. (1989). The state concedes that this portion of his sentence is illegal, and that the trial court erred in rejecting appellant’s challenge. We agree, and reverse and remand for resentencing…