WEAKLAND v. STATE

No. 86-2791.

520 So.2d 311 (1988)

John R. WEAKLAND, Appellant, v. STATE of Florida, Appellee.

District Court of Appeal of Florida, Second District.

February 24, 1988.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Ky M. Koch of Bauer, Koch, Mariani & Petrillo, Clearwater, for appellant.

Robert A. Butterworth, Atty. Gen., Tallahassee, and Charles Corces, Jr., Asst. Atty. Gen., Tampa, for appellee.


THREADGILL, Judge.

John Weakland, convicted of sexual battery and false imprisonment, appeals his sentence to state prison for seventeen years to be followed by probation. He argues that a 1972 conviction for attempted rape in Kansas was scored improperly as a second-degree felony rather than as a third-degree felony, and thus put him in a higher category on the sentencing guidelines scoresheet. We agree and reverse.

The state argues that the attempted rape...

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