Connolly v. State

Twelve years ago, defendant Ronnie E. Connolly entered a plea to the charge of lewd assault upon a child. He now appeals the summary denial of his latest Rule 3.800(a) motion to correct illegal sentence. We begin by noting that Connolly’s successive factual claims about his earlier Georgia sentences are not cognizable under Rule 3.800(a). See, e.g., Hawn v. State, 840 So.2d 352 (Fla. 5th DCA 2003) (claim that sentence was illegal based on allegedly erroneous assessment of certain score-sheet points was improperly brought under Rule 3.800(a) because error, if it exists, cannot be ascertained…