Legal Opinion

Howard v. State

District Court of Appeal of Florida

Decided November 7, 2014No. 2D13-2059Published

1Opinion of the Court

NORTHCUTT, Judge.

In 2010, Alvin Howard entered into a plea agreement to resolve numerous charges. His agreed-upon sentences included three ten-year terms as a habitual felony offender for various felonies, several five-year terms for drug possession, and one five-year minimum mandatory term as a prison releasee reoffender for burglary of an unoccupied structure. All the sentences ran concurrently. Howard challenged the last-mentioned PRR sentence as illegal, first in a motion pursuant to Florida Rule of Criminal Procedure 3.800(a), which he dismissed before a ruling was entered, and then in a…

2Cases cited5 opinions

  1. Spera v. StateSupreme Court of Florida · 2007
  2. McCrae v. StateSupreme Court of Florida · 1983
  3. Nedd v. StateDistrict Court of Appeal of Florida · 2003
  4. Dominguez v. StateDistrict Court of Appeal of Florida · 2012
  5. Barthel v. StateDistrict Court of Appeal of Florida · 2003

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