Florida District Courts of Appeal, 1997

Phillips v. State

Phillips v. State
Florida District Courts of Appeal · Decided July 16, 1997 · Barkdull, Cope, Gersten
696 So. 2d 545; 1997 Fla. App. LEXIS 8150; 1997 WL 395232 (Southern Reporter, Second Series)

Phillips v. State

Opinion of the Court

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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