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State v. Mendiola

Citations

  • 919 So. 2d 471
  • 2005 WL 2088008

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  • holding that defendant who was prematurely released from prison through no fault of his own was entitled to have time spent at liberty credited to his sentence
  • explaining that the defendant was entitled to credit for time he was released from prison through no fault of his own
  • holding the trial court's order awarding defendant credit for time spent at liberty when he was prematurely released from prison violated separation of powers doctrine
  • holding the trial court's order awarding defendant credit for time spent at liberty when he was prematurely released from prison violated separation of powers doctrine
  • defect in sentence credit could not be cured by treating the order as one \mitigating\ the sentence because the jurisdictional time for mitigation had long since expired

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Judges: Wells and Cortiã‘as, Jj., and Schwartz, Senior Judge

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