5D01-679 Caples v. State

State: Florida

Court: Florida Fifth District Court

Docket No: 5D01-679

Case Date: 07/02/2001

Preview:IN THE DISTRICT COURT OF APPEAL OF THE STATE OF FLORIDA FIFTH DISTRICT JANUARY TERM 2001

GARY CAPLES, Appellant, v. STATE OF FLORIDA, Appellee. _________________________________/ Opinion filed July 6, 2001 3.800 Appeal from the Circuit Court for Hernando County, Jack Springstead, Judge. Gary Caples, Bristol, Pro se. Robert A. Butterworth, Attorney General, Tallahassee, and Lori N. Hagan, and Angela D. McCravy, Assistant Attorney Generals, Daytona Beach, for Appellee. CASE NO. 5D01-679

HARRIS, J. Caples was charged, along with other felonies, with the offense of felony Driving While License Suspended. Faced with a threat of a habitual violent felony offender classification and a possible 30-year sentence, Caples elected to enter a negotiated plea under which he received five year sentences on all charges except a robbery charge which netted him eight years. Caples did not appeal. However, after Huss v. State, 771 So. 2d 591 (Fla. 1st DCA 2000), which held that convictions for DWLSR occurring before the

statutory revision of section 322.34, Fla. Stat., could not be treated as prior convictions for the purpose of reclassifying misdemeanor DWLSR to a felony, Caples, because his prior convictions occurred before that date, filed a Heggs-like motion for resentencing. His means of relief, if indeed he is entitled to relief, is by withdrawing his plea and not by receiving the benefit of a negotiated plea sweetened by an additional reduction of sentence based on Huss. We affirm the court's denial of Caples' motion to correct illegal sentence but without prejudice to request a withdrawal of his plea. AFFIRMED.

THOMPSON, C.J., and SHARP, W., J., concur.

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