Legal Opinion

Poole v. State

District Court of Appeal of Florida

Decided January 24, 1996No. 95-3605PublishedCited by 1 opinion

1Per curiam

This is an appeal from a final order of the Broward County Circuit Court which summarily denied a motion for clarification of sentence. This court has treated the motion as if filed pursuant to rule 3.800(a), Florida Rules of Criminal Procedure.

Appellant has claimed that his three sentences are illegal due to the denial of equal jail-time credit on them. The trial court summarily denied his motion without attaching any portions of the trial court record.

Since the motion was legally sufficient, Fountain v. State, 660 So.2d 376 (Fla. 4th DCA 1995), the trial court erred in summarily denying it…

2Cases cited3 opinions

  1. Fountain v. StateDistrict Court of Appeal of Florida · 1995
  2. Haggerty v. StateDistrict Court of Appeal of Florida · 1994
  3. McCray v. StateDistrict Court of Appeal of Florida · 1994

3Cited by1 opinion

  1. Phillips v. StateDistrict Court of Appeal of Florida · 2009

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