Florida District Courts of Appeal, 1990

Sellers v. State

Sellers v. State
Florida District Courts of Appeal · Decided July 3, 1990 · Ervin, Miner, Wentworth
563 So. 2d 214; 1990 Fla. App. LEXIS 4882; 1990 WL 95352 (Southern Reporter, Second Series)

Sellers v. State

Opinion of the Court

PER CURIAM.

Sellers seeks a belated appeal under Hollingshead v. Wainwright, 194 So.2d 577 (Fla. 1967), cert. denied, 391 U.S. 968, 88 S.Ct. 2040, 20 L.Ed.2d 882 (1968), in order to challenge the departure sentence he received after violating probation. The state does not object to the belated appeal, and concedes that the multi-cell departure sentence was contrary to Lambert v. State, 545 So.2d 838 (Fla. 1989). Accepting the belated appeal, we hold that appellant’s departure sentence exceeds the allowable one-cell bump-up and is contrary to the supreme court’s holding in Lambert. Consequently, we reverse the sentence and remand for resentencing in accordance with Lambert.

ERVIN, WENTWORTH and MINER, JJ., concur.

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