Hickmon v. State

SHARP, W., J.

Hickmon appeals from the trial court’s summary denial of his motion filed pursuant to Florida Rule of Criminal Procedure 3.800, seeking to correct an “illegal sentence,” in his 1997 criminal case, No. 97-598. The trial court denied the motion because it was successive and lacked merit. We affirm.

After a jury trial, Hickmon was convicted in 1997 of sale or delivery of cocaine and possession of cocaine.1 He was sentenced in 1998. Hickmon appealed and this court PCA’d. See Hickmon v. State, 729 So.2d 942 (Fla. 5th DCA 1999). He then filed a motion pursuant to Florida Rule of…