Legal Opinion

Mathis v. State

District Court of Appeal of Florida

Decided May 28, 1999No. 98-00221PublishedCited by 1 opinion

1Opinion of the Court

WHATLEY, Judge.

Lester James Mathis appeals his sentence imposed upon remand. He contends that the trial court failed to follow this court’s mandate in Mathis v. State, 693 So.2d 1032 (Fla. 2d DCA 1997), when it failed to resentence him on all four of the counts of which he was convicted.

In Mathis, this court reversed only Mathis’s sentence for his conviction of attempted second degree murder of a law enforcement officer because it had been erroneously classified as a life felony rather than a first degree felony. However, this court directed at the conclusion of the opinion that Mathis be…

2Cases cited2 opinions

  1. Sinks v. StateSupreme Court of Florida · 1995
  2. Mathis v. StateDistrict Court of Appeal of Florida · 1997

3Cited by1 opinion

  1. Black v. StateDistrict Court of Appeal of Florida · 2011

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