Wilson was charged with robbery on April 26, 1993, and two days later the State filed written notice of intent to seek enhanced penalties under section 775.084, Florida Statutes (1993), the habitual felony offender statute. At the plea hearing on July 2, 1993, Wilson submitted a written plea offering a plea of nolo contendere and containing this provision:ħ. I understand that if I plead Nolo Contendere to these charges. the maximum possible penalty is 15 years + $10,000 fine.
THE COURT: Anything further on the known and voluntary nature of the plea? The following colloquy then took place concerning sentencing as an habitual offender: The fifteen-year limit was the standard statutory maximum for Wilson's crime, a second-degree felony, under section 775.082, Florida Statutes (1993), which supersedes and caps guidelines ranges. Hill did file a notice of intent to seek enhanced penalties on April 28th and I just want to make sure that Mr. Wilson, do you understand that the State is seeking an enhanced penalty to have you classified as an habitual offender? I do not know what she is going to recommend for sentence. Sentencing as an habitual offender, an alternative to sentencing under the guidelines, carries maximum sentences that are roughly double the standard statutory maximums. The maximum for Wilson's crime as an habitual offender was thirty years' imprisonment, as opposed to the fifteen year limit mentioned in his plea petition. The court accepted Wilson's plea of nolo contendere, ordered a presentence investigation, and deferred sentencing. At sentencing on August 23, 1993, the court sentenced Wilson as an habitual felony offender to twenty-two years imprisonment followed by three years' probation.
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On appeal, the district court concluded that the trial court had failed to meet the requirements of Ashley v. This Court in Ashley held that before a court can habitualize a defendant pursuant to a plea the court must ensure that the plea is knowing and intelligent: The court reversed the sentence and remanded for imposition of a sentence within the fifteen-year limit set forth in Wilson's written plea. In sum, we hold that in order for a defendant to be habitualized following a guilty or nolo plea, the following must take place prior to acceptance of the plea: 1) The defendant must be given written notice of intent to habitualize, and 2) the court must confirm that the defendant is personally aware of the possibility and reasonable consequences of habitualization.Īshley, 614 So. We explained that the "reasonable consequences of habitualization" include "the maximum habitual offender term for the charged offense, the fact that habitualization may affect the possibility of early release through certain programs." Id. In the present case, the first Ashley requirement was met the State filed written notice of intent to habitualize before the plea was accepted. Held.The second requirement, however, was not. How is the term “wrongfulness” defined for purposes of the affirmative defense of insanity? The two quarreled, and the Defendant shot and killed the victim Jack Peters. On August 5, 1993, the Defendant went to confront the victim Jack Peters at his house. The police told him that it was impossible to investigate the allegations. The Defendant eventually began to contact the authorities regarding the conspiracy. In fact, the Defendant believed that the victim Jack Peters was the mastermind of a large organization bent on controlling the minds of others. The Defendant believed that Dirk Peters had poisoned him and hypnotized him to gain control of his thoughts. In early 1993, the Defendant began to believe that Dirk Peters and the victim Jack Peters were destroying his life. The Defendant and Dirk Peters attended high school together and the Defendant became acquainted with the victim Jack Peters through Dirk Peters.
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