PAULINE PHILLIPS, APPELLANT,
v.
THE STATE OF FLORIDA, APPELLEE

Fla. 3d DCA | 1997-07-16
No. 96-107
Before COPE and GERSTEN, JJ., and BARKDULL, Senior Judge.
696 So. 2d 545 Florida District Court of Appeal, Third District (1997)

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Holding

The court affirmed the denial of postconviction relief but remanded for correction of the judgment to accurately reflect the felony classification of attempted first-degree murder.


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Appellant sought postconviction relief, arguing her conviction for conspiracy to traffic cocaine should have been classified as a second-degree felony…

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Opinion of the Court
PER CURIAM.

On Motion for Rehearing

PER CURIAM.

On consideration of appellant’s motion for rehearing, we withdraw the court’s previous opinion and issue the following opinion in its stead:

Pauline Phillips appeals the trial court’s order denying her motion for postconviction relief under Florida Rule of Criminal Procedure 3.850. Defendant-appellant’s principal issue is foreclosed by the Florida Supreme Court’s recent decision in State v. Woodley, 695 So. 2d 297 (Fla.1997).

We remand for correction of the judgment to reflect that the offense of attempted first degree murder is a first degree felony, rather than a life felony. However, the offense was correctly scored on the seoresheet and consequently there is no scoring error on this count.

By motion for rehearing, defendant argues that the offense of conspiracy to traffic in cocaine should have been classified as a second degree felony instead of a first degree felony. See State v. Lee, 647 So. 2d 810, 810-12 (Fla.1994). In the trial court, defendant took the position that this offense had been properly classified as a first degree felony. Since defendant’s argument on this issue was not raised in the trial court, we do not reach it on this appeal. See Nichols v. State, 693 So. 2d 725 (Fla. 3d DCA 1997). Our affir-mance is without prejudice to defendant to present this issue to the trial court by another motion for postconvietion relief. We express no opinion on the merits.

Affirmed; remanded for correction of judgment.


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