Case Name: Ronald Walter HARRIS, Appellant, v. STATE of Florida, Appellee
Court: Florida District Court of Appeal
Jurisdiction: Florida
Decision Date: 1999-06-02
Citations: 734 So. 2d 1154
Docket Number: No. 98-01895
Parties: Ronald Walter HARRIS, Appellant, v. STATE of Florida, Appellee.
Judges: NORTHCUTT and SALCINES, JJ., Concur.
Reporter: Southern Reporter, Second Series
Volume: 734
Pages: 1154–1154

Head Matter:
Ronald Walter HARRIS, Appellant, v. STATE of Florida, Appellee.
No. 98-01895.
District Court of Appeal of Florida, Second District.
June 2, 1999.
Cedric P. Hay of Beil .& Hay, P.A., Hudson, for Appellant.
Robert A. Butterworth, Attorney General, Tallahassee and Dale E; Tarpley, Assistant Attorney General,. Tampa, for Appel-lee.

Opinion:
CAMPBELL, Acting Chief Judge.
Appellant, who was originally sentenced on April 13, 1998 to twenty-four months' prison time with thirty-one days' credit for time served, challenges the May 18, 1998 order resentencing him to four and one-half years' prison with 419 days' credit for time served. Appellant argues, and we agree, that once he began serving Ms legal sentence, the court could not increase his term. Resentencing on the same charge is a violation of double jeopardy. See Troupe v. Rowe, 283 So.2d 857 (Fla.1973); Hinton v. State, 446 So.2d 712 (Fla. 2d DCA 1984). Accordingly, we vacate Appellant's sentence and remand for reimposition of the original sentence with the correct amount of credit for time served.
NORTHCUTT and SALCINES, JJ., Concur.