Andrews v. State

OPINION

MANNHEIMER, Judge.

Charles D. Andrews, Jr., committed two robberies on September 1, 1997. In both robberies, Andrews represented that he was armed with a firearm; thus, he could have been prosecuted for first-degree robbery. 1 However, Andrews was in fact unarmed, and in both instances he took very little — a pair of scissors in the first robbery, a can of soda in the second. The State agreed to reduce the charges to second-degree robbery. 2 Andrews pleaded no contest to these reduced charges.

For these two crimes, Andrews was sentenced to a composite term of 14 years’ imprisonment. He…