Case Name: Martin SCOTT, Appellant, v. The STATE of Florida, Appellee
Court: Florida District Court of Appeal
Jurisdiction: Florida
Decision Date: 2005-04-20
Citations: 898 So. 2d 1213
Docket Number: No. 3D04-3076
Parties: Martin SCOTT, Appellant, v. The STATE of Florida, Appellee.
Judges: Before FLETCHER, WELLS, and SUAREZ, JJ.
Reporter: Southern Reporter, Second Series
Volume: 898
Pages: 1213–1214

Head Matter:
Martin SCOTT, Appellant, v. The STATE of Florida, Appellee.
No. 3D04-3076.
District Court of Appeal of Florida, Third District.
April 20, 2005.
Bennett H. Brummer, Public Defender, and Marti Rothenberg Assistant Public Defender, for appellee.
Charles J. Crist, Attorney General, and Robin F. Hazel, Assistant Attorney General for appellant.
Before FLETCHER, WELLS, and SUAREZ, JJ.

Opinion:
WELLS, Judge.
Martin Scott appeals the summary denial of his rule 3.850 motion for post-conviction relief claiming that the trial court erred in imposing a ten year mandatory minimum on his Habitual Violent Offender sentence for robbery by sudden snatching, a third degree felony. See § 812.131, Fla. Stat. (2001). We agree. Where a third degree felony is involved, section 775.084(4)(b)3 makes an offender ineligible for release for five years. The 10 year mandatory minimum sentence imposed on Scott's third degree felony is, therefore, illegal and must be reduced on remand to five years. See Burgess v. State, 854 So.2d 754, 755 (Fla. 2d DCA 2003); Summers v. State, 747 So.2d 987, 989 (Fla. 5th DCA 1999); see also Williams v. State, 500 So.2d 501, 503 (Fla.1986), receded from in part on other grounds, Quarterman v. State, 527 So.2d 1380, 1382 (Fla.1988). In all other respects, the order under review is affirmed.
Affirmed in part, reversed in part, and remanded for correction of sentence.