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Ragan v. State

District Court of Appeal of Florida, First District
Jan 31, 2008
973 So. 2d 648 (Fla. Dist. Ct. App. 2008)

Opinion

No. 1D07-2728.

January 31, 2008.

Appeal from the Circuit Court, Leon County, Jonathan E. Sjostrom, J.

Joseph R. Ragan, pro se, Appellant.

Bill McCollum, Attorney General, Charlie McCoy, Senior Assistant Attorney General, and Carolyn J. Mosley, Assistant Attorney General, Tallahassee, for Appellee.


The appellant challenges the trial court's summary denial of his Florida Rule of Criminal Procedure 3.800(a) motion. The appellant asserts that a three-year mandatory minimum sentence was improperly imposed pursuant to section 775.087(2), Florida Statutes (1982), because there were no specific jury findings indicating the appellant personally possessed a firearm. The trial court failed to provide record attachments that conclusively refute the appellant's claim that the jury verdict did not find that he actually possessed the firearm, as required to impose a three-year minimum mandatory sentence for commission of an offense with use of a firearm. See Knight v. State, 800 So.2d 702, 702 (Fla. 1st DCA 2001). No other claim was adequately pleaded. See Lauramore v. State, 949 So.2d 307 (Fla. 1st DCA 2007).

We, therefore, reverse the trial court's order and remand for the court to attach records conclusively refuting the appellant's claim of insufficient jury findings, or to resentence the appellant without the three-year minimum mandatory sentence.

AFFIRMED IN PART, REVERSED IN PART AND REMANDED.

WEBSTER, BENTON, and POLSTON, JJ., concur.


Summaries of

Ragan v. State

District Court of Appeal of Florida, First District
Jan 31, 2008
973 So. 2d 648 (Fla. Dist. Ct. App. 2008)
Case details for

Ragan v. State

Case Details

Full title:Joseph R. RAGAN, Appellant, v. STATE of Florida, Appellee

Court:District Court of Appeal of Florida, First District

Date published: Jan 31, 2008

Citations

973 So. 2d 648 (Fla. Dist. Ct. App. 2008)

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