Case Name: Edward S. ELMQUIST, Appellant, v. STATE of Florida, Appellee
Court: Florida District Court of Appeal
Jurisdiction: Florida
Decision Date: 1999-09-03
Citations: 739 So. 2d 1275
Docket Number: No. 98-3896
Parties: Edward S. ELMQUIST, Appellant, v. STATE of Florida, Appellee.
Judges: BOOTH and BENTON, JJ., and SMITH, LARRY G., Senior Judge, concur.
Reporter: Southern Reporter, Second Series
Volume: 739
Pages: 1275–1276

Head Matter:
Edward S. ELMQUIST, Appellant, v. STATE of Florida, Appellee.
No. 98-3896.
District Court of Appeal of Florida, First District.
Sept. 3, 1999.
Nancy Daniels, Public Defender, and P. Douglas Brinkmeyer, Assistant Public Defender, Tallahassee, for Appellant.
Robert A. Butterworth, Attorney General, and James W. Rogers, Senior Assistant Attorney General, Tallahassee, for Appel-lee.

Opinion:
PER CURIAM.
This is an Anders appeal in which we requested supplemental briefing on the legality of the sixteen-year sentence imposed on appellant for a second degree felony following his admission to having violated the conditions of a previously imposed term of probation. Because we conclude that the length of appellant's violation sentence exceeds the maximum term authorized by law for his particular offense, see § 775.082(3)(c), Fla. Stat. (1989), and as such constitutes an "illegal" sentence which can be challenged for the first time on appeal, see Mason v. State, 710 So.2d 82 (Fla. 1st DCA 1998); Dean v. State, 702 So.2d 1358 (Fla. 1st DCA 1997); Sanders v. State, 698 So.2d 377 (Fla. 1st DCA 1997), we vacate the violation sentence and remand for resentencing. We affirm in all other respects.
BOOTH and BENTON, JJ., and SMITH, LARRY G., Senior Judge, concur.
. See Anders v. California, 386 U.S. 738, 87 S.Ct. 1396, 18 L.Ed.2d 493 (1967).