ORFINGER, Judge.
This is an appeal from a departure sentence. We reverse, because even if we assume that departure from the guidelines was warranted, a matter not raised and not decided here, the thirty year sentence imposed for the crime of attempted sexual battery with a deadly weapon exceeded the statutory maximum penalty for the crime.
Sexual battery with a deadly weapon is a life felony. § 794.011(3), Fla. Stat. (1985). An attempt to commit...
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