Cedric Dennard v. State

We affirm the trial court’s denial of appellant’s successive rule 3.800(a) motion to correct illegal sentence. Appellant contends that the concurrent twenty-two year sentences that he received in 2001 for two sexual battery offenses are illegal. He claims that the 22-year term imposed for each second-degree felony exceeds the 15-year statutory maximum and also exceeds the 16.15-year minimum permissible sentence under the Criminal Punishment Code scoresheet.

Appellant raised this same claim in a rule 3.800(a) motion that he filed in 2009. That motion was denied on the merits, and he did not…