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Allen v. State

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  • 853 So. 2d 533
  • 2003 WL 22023174

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  • affirming trial court’s order entered under rule 3.800(a) correcting the length of the previously imposed minimum mandatory provision of the sentence
  • a court may, at any time, correct an illegal sentence imposed by it.
  • “It does not offend double jeopardy principles to resentence a defendant to harsher terms when the original sentence was invalid, particularly when, as in the instant case, it is the defendant who brings his sentence into question.”

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Judges: Thompson

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