State v. Williams

The state appeals a downward departure sentence negotiated between the court and the defendant which provided that if the defendant would enter a plea of no contest, the court would impose a sentence of twenty-one days with credit for time served and adjudication withheld. The plea, entered over the state’s objection, involved the sale and delivery of cocaine to an undercover agent within one thousand feet of a school in violation of section 893.13(l)(e), Florida Statutes (1987). The presumptive sentence upon conviction of the charges is from three and one-half to four years in prison. The…