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SAMSON v. STATE

No. 4D01-2675.

853 So.2d 1116 (2003)

Elizar SAMSON, Appellant, v. STATE of Florida, Appellee.

District Court of Appeal of Florida, Fourth District.

September 10, 2003.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Carey Haughwout, Public Defender, and Gary Caldwell, Assistant Public Defender, West Palm Beach, for appellant.

Charles J. Crist, Jr., Attorney General, Tallahassee, Laurel R. Wiley and Marrett W. Hanna, Assistant Attorneys General, West Palm Beach, for appellee.

PER CURIAM.

We have for review the pleas and sentences in this case. Elizar Samson ("Samson") argues that his nolo contendere pleas were improperly accepted because he was incompetent at the time. We agree and reverse.

Samson was charged with eight counts of robbery with a deadly weapon. He was then adjudicated incompetent to proceed and institutionalized for treatment. At a later hearing, he pled nolo contendere to the counts charged and was sentenced to...

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