Losh v. State

In this rule 8.800(a) appeal, appellant challenges his ten-year mandatory minimum sentence imposed for armed robbery with a firearm. He claims that the sentencing court did not pronounce the mandatory minimum term, and that its correction of the sentence days later has resulted in him serving an illegal sentence.

The state contends that the court simply corrected a clerical error in reducing the orally pronounced sentence to writing. Having reviewed the plea agreement, the plea colloquy, and the initial sentencing documents, we reject the state’s characterization of the “error” as clerical.

With…