RAINES v. STATE

No. 2D08-142.

14 So.3d 244 (2009)

Vincent Keith RAINES, Appellant, v. STATE of Florida, Appellee.

District Court of Appeal of Florida, Second District.

Rehearing Denied August 14, 2009.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Julianne M. Holt, Public Defender, and Joseph P. Kuss, Assistant Public Defender, Tampa, for Appellant.

Bill McCollum, Attorney General, Tallahassee, and Timothy A. Freeland, Assistant Attorney General, Tampa, for Appellee.


ALTENBERND, Judge.

Vincent Raines appeals an order denying his petition for writ of habeas corpus. Although we affirm this order, we do so for reasons other than those contained in the order. The sentence imposed in April 1990 in case number 89-20755-A by Judge Harry Lee Coe was an illegal sentence. Nevertheless, Mr. Raines has fully served that sentence. When he filed this petition, he was serving an unrelated state sentence. He claimed in his petition that the 1990...

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