LAVICTOR WILLIAMS, APPELLANT,
v.
STATE OF FLORIDA, APPELLEE

Fla. 5th DCA | 2000-10-13
No. 5D00-315
THOMPSON, C.J., and PLEUS, J., concur.
770 So. 2d 713 Florida District Court of Appeal, Fifth District (2000)

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Holding

The state is bound by the plea agreement and cannot amend charges after conceding sentencing error.


Facts & Procedural History

Defendant pleaded no contest to charges, reserving the right to appeal his habitual felony offender sentence. The state conceded the sentence was impo…

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Opinion of the Court
COBB, J.

COBB, J.

The appellant, Lavictor Williams, entered no contest pleas to trafficking, possession, and carrying a concealed firearm, based upon an agreement with the state in regard to the filing of other charges. As part of the deal, Williams retained the right to appeal the habitual felony offender sentence imposed upon him.

On appeal the state concedes that Williams should have been sentenced under the guidelines rather than under section 775.084(1), Florida Statutes (1999). The state urges that, under the circumstances, it should be discharged from its bargain and, upon remand, be allowed to amend the information to add additional charges. The state’s argument and the cases it cites1 are inapposite, however, because the original plea agreement expressly contemplated Williams’ appellate challenge to the legality of the habitual felony sentence. The state is bound by that agreement. Accordingly, we reverse the sentence and remand for imposition of a sentence under the sentencing guidelines without amendment of the instant information.

REVERSED AND REMANDED.

THOMPSON, C.J., and PLEUS, J., concur. . Clay v. State, 750 So. 2d 153 (Fla. 1st DCA 2000); Forshee v. State, 579 So. 2d 388 (Fla. 2d DCA 1991); Jolly v. State, 392 So. 2d 54 (Fla. 5th DCA 1981).


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