RICHARD A. CIGELSKI, APPELLANT,
v.
STATE OF FLORIDA, APPELLEE

Fla. 1st DCA | 1984-06-19
No. AW-435
ERVIN, C.J., and BOOTH, JJ., concur., ERVIN, BOOTH and WENTWORTH, JJ., concur.
453 So. 2d 840 Florida District Court of Appeal, First District (1984) Caution
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Synopsis

Cigelski challenged his sentence of consecutive probation terms with incarceration conditions as a deviation from sentencing guidelines and a violation of Villery v. Parole and Probation Commission. The court affirmed, holding that probation is not a "sentence" under the guidelines and that separate probation terms may each carry a twelve-month incarceration condition.


Holding

The trial court's disposition was proper. When two separate and consecutive probation terms are imposed, Villery does not preclude imposing twelve months' incarceration as a condition of each term. Additionally, probation is not a "sentence" under the guidelines and therefore is not subject to guideline sentencing ranges; the trial court may impose probation as an alternative to sentencing pursuant to Florida Statutes § 948.01(3).


Headnotes

[1] A twelve-month period of incarceration may be imposed as a special condition of each of two separate and consecutive terms of probation.

[2] Probation, when imposed pursuant to Fla. …

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“when, as here, two separate and consecutive terms of probation are imposed, Villery does not preclude the imposition of twelve months' incarceration as a condition of each probation.”

Establishes that Villery's one-year limitation applies per probation term, not in the aggregate when consecutive terms are imposed.

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Facts & Procedural History

Cigelski pleaded guilty to burglary and grand theft. Under sentencing guidelines, the recommended sentence was twelve to thirty months in prison. The …

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Opinion of the Court
WENTWORTH, Judge.

WENTWORTH, Judge.

After pleading guilty to one count of burglary and one count of grand theft, appellant elected to be sentenced pursuant to the new sentencing guidelines, Fla.R. Crim.P. 3.701. Under the guidelines, the recommended sentence for both counts was twelve to thirty months in prison. Instead, the court withheld imposition of sentence and placed appellant on consecutive terms of probation; ten years for the burglary conviction to be followed by five years for the grand theft conviction. A twelvemonth period of incarceration was attached as a special condition of each probationary term. Appellant challenges this disposition as a deviation from the guidelines and as being in violation of the Supreme Court decision in Villery v. Parole and Probation Commission, 396 So. 2d 1107 (Fla.1981). We affirm.

Appellant contends that the total of 24 months’ incarceration violates the holding in Villery that the period of incarceration imposed as a special condition of probation may not exceed one year. However, when, as here, two separate and consecutive terms of probation are imposed, Vil-lery does not preclude the imposition of twelve months’ incarceration as a condition of each probation.

We also reject appellant’s contention that the trial court was precluded from imposing a combination of incarceration and probation totaling more than the 30 months recommended maximum sentence under the guidelines. Appellant’s position rests upon an erroneous assumption that the imposed probationary terms are sentences for guideline purposes. But the dispositions in this case were expressly pursuant to § 948.01(3) which provides in part that the trial court may “stay and withhold the imposition of sentence upon defendant and shall place him upon probation _” (e.s.) To hold, as appellant suggests, that probation is a “sentence” controlled by the guidelines would amount to judicial repeal of a legislative enactment. This of course we will not do.

That the framers of the guidelines did not intend that probation be treated as a sentence is further supported by the fact that Rule 3.701(d)(13) provides for placing the offender on community control “upon a finding that probation is an unsuitable disposition.” By providing for a special category when probation is inappropriate, the rule implicitly presumes the continued existence of probation as an alternative to sentencing.

Affirmed.

ERVIN, C.J., and BOOTH, JJ., concur.

Other
PER CURIAM.

PER CURIAM.

We find no conflict between the decision in this case and that in Broxton v. State, 459 So. 2d 98 (Fla. 1st DCA 1984), as urged by motion for rehearing. We note, however, that appellant’s attack upon the probationary orders in the present case was confined to the specific points stated in the opinion. Our disposition of the case does not, of course, determine other issues, if any, which may be raised with respect to the general propriety of such probationary orders. Rehearing is DENIED.

ERVIN, BOOTH and WENTWORTH, JJ., concur.


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