JORGE RODRIGUEZ, APPELLANT,
v.
THE STATE OF FLORIDA, APPELLEE
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Rodriguez appealed a probation revocation based on an attempted burglary conviction. The appellate court found insufficient evidence for attempted burglary but affirmed the revocation because the evidence clearly supported a trespass conviction under Florida law.
The court reversed the attempted burglary finding due to insufficient evidence of intent to commit an offense within the home, but affirmed the probation revocation because the evidence clearly established the offense of trespass under Florida Statutes sections 810.08 and 810.011.
[1] Evidence is insufficient to prove attempted burglary when the state fails to show intent to commit an offense within the dwelling and the relevant statute does not apply…
[2] A trespass conviction is sustainable when the defendant enters property without authorization and refuses to leave after being warned.
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PER CURIAM.
Rodriguez appeals a revocation of probation which was based on a finding that he committed an attempted burglary. We agree with appellant that the evidence was insufficient to prove an attempted burglary because: (a) the state failed to show the intent to commit an offense within Ms. Schraader’s home; and (b) the court erred in deriving that intent from section 810.07, Florida Statutes (1981), which does not operate in the case of an attempted burglary where there is no entry. State v. Waters, 436 So. 2d 66, 69-70 (Fla.1983). However, it was clearly established that the defendant entered the property and, even in the face of Ms. Schraader’s warnings that she would call the police, attempted entry through the front door, the back door, and a window. Therefore, there was sufficient competent evidence to support a finding that Rodriguez committed the offense of trespass in violation of sections 810.08(1), (2)(b) and 810.011(1), Florida Statutes (1981).1 Consequently, the revocation of probation is sustainable. Finding Rodriguez’ arguments about the illegality of the sentence to be without merit, the judgment and sentence are affirmed.
. The cited statutory provisions read as follows, with emphasis supplied: 810.08 Trespass in structure or conveyance.—
(1) Whoever, without being authorized, licensed, or invited, willfully enters or remains in any structure or conveyance, or, having been authorized, licensed, or invited, is warned by the owner or lessee of the premises, or by a person authorized by the owner or lessee, to depart and refuses to do so, commits the offense of trespass in a structure or conveyance.
(2)(b) If there is a human being in the structure or conveyance at the time the offender trespassed, attempted to trespass, or was in the structure or conveyance, the trespass in a structure or conveyance is a misdemeanor of the first degree, punishable as provided in s. 775.082, s. 775.083, or s. 775.084.
810.011 Definitions. — As used in this chapter:
(1) "Structure” means a building of any kind, either temporary or permanent, which has a roof over it, together with the curtilage thereof.
Rodriguez’ uninvited and unauthorized entry onto the curtilage, the land around the dwelling, and his refusal to leave after warning, clearly constitute a trespass under the statutes.