Hatten v. Florida
Annotate this CaseDefendant argued that the trial court erred as a matter of law by sentencing him for attempted second-degree murder (count III) to 40 years with a 25-year mandatory minimum pursuant to Fla. Stat. 775.087(2), the 10-20-Life statute. In this case, the trial court imposed a total sentence of 40 years’ imprisonment for count III, with a 25-year mandatory minimum sentence. The trial court did not impose its entire sentence pursuant to the 10-20-Life statute. The court concluded that a sentence imposed pursuant to the 10-20-Life statute is a mandatory minimum sentence that is not eligible for gain-time or early release. Therefore, the court quashed the First District’s decision in Hatten v. State and remanded for resentencing. The court also approved the holding of the Fourth District in Wiley v. State certified to be in conflict by the First District in Hatten, as well as the holdings certified to be in conflict from the Second, Fourth, and Fifth Districts.
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