STATE v. MENDIOLA

No. 3D04-2860.

919 So.2d 471 (2005)

The STATE of Florida, Appellant, v. Juan Antonio MENDIOLA, Appellee.

District Court of Appeal of Florida, Third District.

Rehearing and Rehearing Denied January 6, 2006.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Charles J. Crist, Jr., Attorney General and Lucretia A. Pitts, Assistant Attorney General, for appellant.

Bennett H. Brummer, Public Defender and Harvey J. Sepler, Assistant Public Defender, for appellee.

Before WELLS and CORTIÑAS, JJ., and SCHWARTZ, Senior Judge.


Rehearing and Rehearing En Banc Denied January 6, 2006.

SCHWARTZ, Senior Judge.

This unusual case concerns the effect of two separate mistakes made by the system as to Mendiola's prison term. We hold that, while the trial judge was entirely right as to the corrections required, he was wrong about his authority to effect one of them. Hence, we partially quash the order under review.

On February 22, 1989, the defendant pled guilty to a variety of offenses...

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