COCHRAN v. STATE

No. 2D04-5531.

899 So.2d 490 (2005)

Frank COCHRAN, Appellant, v. STATE of Florida, Appellee.

District Court of Appeal of Florida, Second District.

April 15, 2005.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Frank Cochran, pro se.

Charles J. Crist, Jr., Attorney General, Tallahassee, and Ronald Napolitano, Assistant Attorney General, Tampa, for Appellee.


ALTENBERND, Chief Judge.

Frank Cochran appeals the trial court's order denying his motion to correct an illegal sentence pursuant to Florida Rule of Criminal Procedure 3.800(a). Because the State filed an information against Mr. Cochran in 1975 that did not take recent statutory amendments into account, he was actually charged with a robbery that was a second-degree felony. The State and the trial court both erroneously assumed that Mr. Cochran had been charged with...

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