Legal Opinion

Lewis v. State

District Court of Appeal of Florida

Decided June 22, 2007No. 2D06-3129Published

1Opinion of the Court

STRINGER, Judge.

In this appeal filed pursuant to Anders v. California, 386 U.S. 738, 87 S.Ct. 1396, 18 L.Ed.2d 493 (1967), Gary Lewis challenges his sentence of twenty months in prison for possession of cocaine. Although the trial court violated the terms of Lewis’s plea agreement when it sentenced him, we affirm because Lewis did not preserve this issue for review.

The State charged Lewis with one count of possession of cocaine. Lewis and the State subsequently entered into a negotiated plea agreement under which Lewis pleaded no contest to the charge in exchange for an agreed sentence of…

2Cases cited3 opinions

  1. Anders v. CaliforniaSupreme Court of the United States · 1967
  2. Russell v. StateDistrict Court of Appeal of Florida · 1994
  3. Roye v. StateDistrict Court of Appeal of Florida · 1997

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