KNIGHT v. STATE

No. 1D00-5044.

800 So.2d 702 (2001)

Marvin KNIGHT, Appellant, v. STATE of Florida, Appellee.

District Court of Appeal of Florida, First District.

November 30, 2001.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Appellant, Marvin Knight, pro se.

Robert A. Butterworth, Attorney General, Tallahassee, for Appellee.


PER CURIAM.

The appellant challenges an order denying his claim that he was illegally sentenced. We reverse.

Appellant contends that the three-year mandatory minimum sentences imposed upon him were illegal because the record demonstrates that his accomplice possessed the only firearm and the jury did not specifically find that he actually possessed a firearm during the commission of the offenses. Because unlike the defendant in Tucker v. State,

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