Legal Opinion
WE v. State
District Court of Appeal of Florida
Decided August 9, 1995No. 94-02888Published
1Opinion of the Court
658 So.2d 1177 (1995)
W.E., a Child, Appellant,
v.
STATE of Florida, Appellee.
No. 94-02888.
District Court of Appeal of Florida, Second District.
August 9, 1995.
James Marion Moorman, Public Defender, Bartow, and Karen Kinney, Asst. Public Defender, Clearwater, for appellant.
Robert A. Butterworth, Atty. Gen., Tallahassee, and Dale E. Tarpley, Asst. Atty. Gen., Tampa, for appellee.
QUINCE, Judge.
W.E. challenges the trial court's amendment of his original sentence to include community control. We reverse since the court has no authority to increase a legal sentence after the judgment has been entered.
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2Cases cited4 opinions
- Troupe v. RoweSupreme Court of Florida · 1973
- Hinton v. StateDistrict Court of Appeal of Florida · 1984
- State v. F.G.District Court of Appeal of Florida · 1993
- G.J.V. v. StateDistrict Court of Appeal of Florida · 1994