Opinion filed June 25, 2026.Not final until disposition of timely filed motion for rehearing.
No. 3D26-0789
Lower Tribunal No. F94-18171B
Charles Garvin,Appellant,
vs.
State of Florida,Appellee.
An Appeal under Florida Rule of Appellate Procedure 9.141(b)(2) fromthe Circuit Court for Miami-Dade County, Jason Bloch, Judge.
Charles Garvin, in proper person.
James Uthmeier, Attorney General, for appellee.
Before SCALES, C.J., and FERNANDEZ and GOODEN, JJ.
PER CURIAM.
Affirmed. See Carter v. State, 786 So. 2d 1173, 1178 (Fla. 2001) (“Tobe illegal within the meaning of rule 3.800(a) the sentence must impose a
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2kind of punishment that no judge under the entire body of sentencing statutescould possibly inflict under any set of factual circumstances.”) (emphasis andcitation omitted) ; § 775.021(4)(a), Fla. Stat. (1994) (“Whoever, in the courseof one criminal transaction or episode, commits an act or acts whichconstitute one or more separate criminal offenses, upon conviction andadjudication of guilt, shall be sentenced separately for each criminal offense;and the sentencing judge may order the sentences to be served concurrentlyor consecutively. For the purposes of this subsection, offenses are separateif each offense requires proof of an element that the other does not, withoutregard to the accusatory pleading or the proof adduced at trial.”); see alsoNusspickel v. State, 966 So. 2d 441, 444 (Fla. 2d DCA 2007) (“Generally,the trial court’s imposition of a sentence that is within the minimum andmaximum limits set by the legislature is a matter for the trial Court in theexercise of its discretion, which cannot be inquired into upon the appellatelevel.”) (citation omitted).
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