5D09-3035 Ronnie Williams v. State

State: Florida

Court: Florida Fifth District Court

Docket No: 5D09-3035

Case Date: 01/11/2010

Preview:IN THE DISTRICT COURT OF APPEAL OF THE STATE OF FLORIDA FIFTH DISTRICT JANUARY TERM 2010

RONNIE C. WILLIAMS, Petitioner, v. STATE OF FLORIDA, Respondent. ________________________________/ Opinion filed January 15, 2010 Petition Alleging Ineffectiveness of Appellate Counsel, A Case of Original Jurisdiction Ronnie C. Williams, Crawfordville, pro se. Bill McCollum, Attorney General, Tallahassee and Ann M. Phillips, Assistant Attorney General, Daytona Beach, for Respondent. PER CURIAM. Petitioner, Ronnie C. Williams, seeks correction of his sentence, alleging ineffective assistance of appellate counsel. See Fla. R. App. P. 9.141(c). Williams asserts that appellate counsel should have filed a motion, pursuant to Florida Rule of Criminal Procedure 3.800(b)(2), to correct his sentence prior to the filing of his initial brief. See generally O'Leary v. State, 2 So. 3d 358 (Fla. 2d DCA 2008); Barber v. State, 918 So. 2d 1013 (Fla. 2d DCA 2006). Williams contends that he was illegally sentenced to thirty years' incarceration as a Prison Releasee Reoffender (PRR) for a seconddegree felony. Case No. 5D09-3035

Williams pled no contest to attempted second-degree murder. The information labeled the charge a first-degree felony. Generally, attempted second-degree murder is a second-degree felony, punishable by no more than fifteen years' imprisonment. See

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