Moore v. State

Jerry Dean Moore appeals an order summarily denying his motion to correct illegal sentence. We reverse.

Moore was convicted of first-degree murder and attempted robbery. Moore committed the crimes in 1979. On the first-degree murder conviction, the court sentenced Moore to 125 years in prison and retained jurisdiction for one-third of the sentence. In 2001, Moore filed a Florida Rule of Criminal Procedure 3.800(a) motion, contending that his sentence was illegal because the only permissible sentence for first-degree murder was life with a twenty-five-year minimum mandatory term before…