Sinclair v. State

Murphy Sinclair appeals the trial court’s order denying his motion to correct illegal sentence pursuant to Florida Rule of Criminal Procedure 3.800(a). Sinclair contends that the trial court violated the double jeopardy clause when it sentenced him to concurrent habitual felony offender and prison releasee reoffender sentences. We disagree and affirm.

Following a jury trial, the jury found Sinclair guilty of resisting an officer without violence and burglary of an occupied dwelling. The court sentenced him to twenty years as a habitual felony offender (“HFO”) with a fifteen-year minimum…