ALTENBERND, Judge.
We affirm the defendant's judgment and sentence for purchase of cocaine within 1000 feet of a school. We note that the trial court imposed a lawful sentence of five years' incarceration, including a three-year minimum mandatory term. At the time the trial court imposed this mandatory minimum term, it believed it had no discretion to do otherwise. Now it is clear that the trial court had discretion to impose a sentence that did not include the mandatory...
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