YOUNG v. STATE

No. 4D17-1850.

229 So.3d 866 (2017)

James Eddie YOUNG, Appellant, v. STATE of Florida, Appellee.

District Court of Appeal of Florida, Fourth District.

October 11, 2017.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

James Young, Miami, pro se.

No brief filed for appellee.


In this appeal from the denial of his Florida Rule of Criminal Procedure 3.800(a) motion, James Young challenges his life sentence for a second degree murder committed while he was a juvenile in 1975. He argues that the sentence is illegal because the maximum sentence for second degree murder, a first degree felony punishable by life, was equivalent...

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