Legal Opinion

State v. Bailey

District Court of Appeal of Florida

Decided September 4, 1998No. 97-2688Published

1Per curiam

The state appeals the trial court’s order granting Jimmie Lee Bailey’s (defendant) motion to correct an illegal sentence.1 We affirm.

Although the written plea agreement .refers only to second-degree murder, makes no reference to a firearm, and calls for the sixty-year sentence now complained of, the subsequent sentencing colloquy and the judgment establish that the defendant was actually adjudicated guilty of second-degree murder with a firearm. If this was done in error, the state should have sought to correct it. Section 775.087(l)(a), Fla. Stat. (1989), mandates that the crime be…

2Cases cited1 opinion

  1. Farmer v. StateDistrict Court of Appeal of Florida · 1996

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