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Coll v. State

District Court of Appeal of Florida, Second District
Dec 29, 1993
629 So. 2d 1056 (Fla. Dist. Ct. App. 1993)

Summary

holding that a court may not increase a legal sentence after it has begun

Summary of this case from Marion v. State

Opinion

No. 92-00725.

December 29, 1993.

Appeal from the Circuit Court, Hillsborough County, Donald C. Evans, J.

Julianne M. Holt, Public Defender, and Lewis E. Garlisi, Asst. Public Defender, Tampa, for appellant.

Robert A. Butterworth, Atty. Gen., Tallahassee, and Helene S. Parnes, Asst. Atty. Gen., Tampa, for appellee.


The appellant challenges the constitutionality of an upward change in his sentence made by the trial court one day after sentence was originally imposed, and he also argues that the trial court should have granted his motion to suppress the evidence against him. We agree with the appellant on the first point but affirm on the second point.

A jury found the appellant guilty of aggravated assault. On January 27, 1992, the trial court sentenced the appellant to a period of five years' incarceration, with a three-year minimum mandatory sentence, as a habitual felony offender. This sentence was to run consecutively to a ten-year sentence as a habitual felony offender on an offense underlying a probationary term which the appellant was found to have violated and which was revoked.

On January 28, 1992, the trial court resentenced the appellant for the offense of aggravated assault to a period of ten years' incarceration, with a three-year minimum mandatory sentence, as a habitual felony offender consecutive to a term of four-and-one-half years' incarceration on the offense underlying the probationary term.

The appellant is correct that the trial court could not increase the appellant's sentence on the current offense, aggravated assault, from five years to ten years. That is a clear violation of double jeopardy. Troupe v. Rowe, 283 So.2d 857 (Fla. 1973). A trial court may not increase a legal sentence after it has commenced.

Accordingly, we reverse the sentence on the offense of aggravated assault with instructions to reinstitute the original sentence of five years' incarceration, with a three-year minimum mandatory sentence, as a habitual felony offender.

Affirmed in part and reversed in part.

HALL and PATTERSON, JJ., concur.


Summaries of

Coll v. State

District Court of Appeal of Florida, Second District
Dec 29, 1993
629 So. 2d 1056 (Fla. Dist. Ct. App. 1993)

holding that a court may not increase a legal sentence after it has begun

Summary of this case from Marion v. State
Case details for

Coll v. State

Case Details

Full title:MARIO ANTONIO COLL, APPELLANT, v. STATE OF FLORIDA, APPELLEE

Court:District Court of Appeal of Florida, Second District

Date published: Dec 29, 1993

Citations

629 So. 2d 1056 (Fla. Dist. Ct. App. 1993)

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