Legal Opinion

Phelps v. State

District Court of Appeal of Florida

Decided March 20, 2009No. 2D08-2010Published

1Opinion of the Court

WHATLEY, Judge.

Rodney Lee Phelps appeals the order denying his motion for postconviction relief. The trial court properly denied Phelps’ motion on all grounds except ground one, in which he alleged he received an illegal sentence. Accordingly, we reverse Phelps’ sentence and remand to the trial court with directions that it treat ground one as a motion to correct illegal sentence and strike the habitual offender designation. See Rule v. State, 997 So.2d 1274 (Fla. 2d DCA 2009) (holding that concurrent and coterminous habitual offender and prison releasee reoffender sentences violate Prison…

2Cases cited1 opinion

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

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