Companion v. State

Ernesto Companioni appeals from a motion to correct illegal sentence filed under Florida Rule of Criminal Procedure 3.800(a) and summarily denied by the trial court. Companioni was charged by information dated August 3, 1987, with two counts of sexual battery and three counts of lewd or lascivious assault for acts committed between March 12 and June 2, 1987, against a child under the age of sixteen. The defendant accepted a negotiated plea on September 6, 1988, to a reduced charge of two counts of attempted sexual battery and three counts of lewd assault upon a minor.

Because Companioni was…