Clay Dawkins v. State of Florida

Clay Dawkins appeals his sentence after the trial court found that he willfully and substantially violated his probation, and sentenced him to serve twenty years in the Department of Corrections. Dawkins argues that the sentence is illegal because the trial court relied upon material misinformation regarding the amount of gain-time that Dawkins would receive, and the substance of Dawkins’s original plea agreement. We disagree, and affirm.

After reviewing the record, including the sentencing hearing, we are satisfied that the trial court did not rely upon any presumed amount of gain-time that…