Legal Opinion

Gould v. State

District Court of Appeal of Florida

Decided August 22, 1991No. 91-113Published

1Opinion of the Court

PETERSON, Judge.

Willie James Gould appeals his sentence for attempted robbery. He claims that, even with enhancement by the habitual offender statute, section 775.084(4)(a)3, Florida Statutes (1989), the sentence exceeds the statutory maximum. We vacate the sentence for the attempted robbery.

In addition to the attempted robbery conviction, Gould also was convicted of three counts of robbery with a deadly weapon. He was sentenced as a habitual offender to seventeen years’ incarceration for the attempt, with concurrent terms of natural life for the three robberies. The life sentences were…

2Cases cited1 opinion

  1. Lape v. StateDistrict Court of Appeal of Florida · 1990

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