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Parkes v. State, Case No. 1D09-4790 (Fla. App. 3/31/2010) (Fla. App., 2010)

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HARVEY LEE PARKES, Appellant, v. STATE OF FLORIDA, Appellee. Case No. 1D09-4790. District Court of Appeal of Florida, First District. Opinion filed March 31, 2010. An appeal from the Circuit Court for Bay County, Richard Albritton, Judge. Harvey Lee Parkes, pro se, Appellant. Bill McCollum, Attorney General, and Christine A. Guard, Assistant Attorney General, Tallahassee, for Appellee. PER CURIAM. Appellant appeals the denial of his motion to correct illegal sentence filed pursuant to Florida Rule of Criminal Procedure 3.800(a). For the reasons discussed below, we reverse and remand the denial of ground one. We affirm the denial of ground two without further discussion. Page 2 In ground one of his motion, Appellant asserts that his consecutive minimum mandatory sentences for first-degree murder and robbery with a firearm are illegal because the crimes arose from a single criminal episode...continue to full post

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