WRIGHT v. STATE

No. 82-647.

425 So.2d 64 (1982)

Joseph Lee WRIGHT, Appellant, v. STATE of Florida, Appellee.

District Court of Appeal of Florida, Second District.

Rehearing Denied January 13, 1983.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Jerry Hill, Public Defender, and Paul C. Helm, Asst. Public Defender, Bartow, for appellant.

Jim Smith, Atty. Gen., Tallahassee, and Robert J. Landry, Asst. Atty. Gen., Tampa, for appellee.


PER CURIAM.

We affirm appellant's convictions for sexual battery, aggravated battery, and trespass. However, the trial court improperly required appellant to serve a minimum mandatory term of thirty years of his life sentence for the sexual battery. § 775.082(3)(a), Fla. Stat. (1981). The court also failed to provide reasons for retaining jurisdiction over appellant's sentence. The court must either relinquish its retention of jurisdiction over one-third of the...

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