John Koeppel On October 9th, the Florida Supreme Court clarified whether a trial court may impose a sentence on remand that departs from the Criminal Punishment Code where the trial judge failed to comply with the requirements of section 775.082(10),
Court Addresses Availability of Provisional Credits to Inmates Sentenced as Habitual Offenders
John Koeppel In Leftwich v. Department of Corrections (SC12-2669), the Florida Supreme Court held that section 944.277, Florida Statutes (1992), renders an inmate ineligible to receive provisional credits on any sentence after the inmate has received a habitual offender sentence,