HUGHES v. STATE

No. 5D14-866.

177 So.3d 689 (2015)

Cortez HUGHES, Appellant, v. STATE of Florida, Appellee.

District Court of Appeal of Florida, Fifth District.

October 23, 2015.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

James S. Purdy , Public Defender, and Kevin R. Holtz , Assistant Public Defender, Daytona Beach, for Appellant.

Pamela Jo Bondi , Attorney General, Tallahassee, and Carmen F. Corrente , Assistant Attorney General, Daytona Beach, for Appellee.

EN BANC.


Cortez Hughes appeals the modification of his sentence, arguing that the trial court erred in restructuring a legal sentence to run consecutively to a modified illegal sentence. We agree and reverse.1 In doing so, we recede from Smith v. State, 147 So.3d 1077, 1078...

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