PLANAS V. STATE
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Third District Court of Appeal State of Florida Opinion filed February 13, 2019. Not final until disposition of timely filed motion for rehearing. ________________ No. 3D18-2635 Lower Tribunal No. 06-21M ________________ Eniel Planas, Appellant, vs. The State of Florida, Appellee. An Appeal under Florida Rule of Appellate Procedure 9.141(b)(2) from the Circuit Court for Monroe County, Ruth L. Becker, Judge. Eniel Planas, in proper person. Ashley Moody, Attorney General, for appellee. Before EMAS, C.J., and SCALES and HENDON, JJ. PER CURIAM. We affirm the trial court’s order, which denied Planas’ Motion to Correct an Unlawful Sentence pursuant to Florida Rule of Criminal Procedure 3.800(a). The motion, while purportedly seeking to correct an illegal sentence, was instead an attack on both the conviction and the sentence. A motion under rule 3.800(a) is not available where, as here, the defendant seeks to challenge the validity of the conviction (and, by extension, the “legality” of the sentence). Lopez v. State, 2 So. 3d 1057, 1059 (Fla. 3d DCA 2009); Coughlin v. State, 932 So. 2d 1224, 1225 (Fla. 2d DCA 2006) (holding that “a traditional double jeopardy challenge attacks both the conviction and, by default, the sentence, while rule 3.800(a) is limited to claims that the sentence itself is illegal, without regard to the underlying conviction”). Planas could have and should have raised the instant claim on direct appeal from his conviction and sentence or, if appropriate, by a timely motion filed pursuant to Florida Rule of Criminal Procedure 3.850. Affirmed. 2
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