WILLIE E. WILSON, APPELLANT,
v.
STATE OF FLORIDA, APPELLEE
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Wilson appeals the summary denial of his post-conviction relief motion challenging his sentencing guidelines scoresheet. The appellate court found a clear computational error in the scoresheet that erroneously assessed 50 points for prior category six convictions when only 35 points were supportable, requiring vacation and remand for resentencing.
The court vacated the sentence and remanded for resentencing, finding that an obvious computational error in the guidelines scoresheet required reversal despite the insufficiency of Wilson's motion to identify specific errors. The 15-point reduction in the scoresheet would reduce the presumptive sentence by one cell.
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[2] A sentencing scoresheet may contain an obvious computational error requiring reversal and remand for resentencing, even if the motion for post-conviction relief is otherw…
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PER CURIAM.
Wilson appeals from the summary denial of his motion for post-conviction relief filed pursuant to Fla.R.Crim.P. 3.850. We vacate the sentence and remand for resentencing.
Wilson pleaded guilty to five counts of issuing worthless checks. A category six sentencing guidelines scoresheet was prepared indicating a recommended range of 12 to 17 years incarceration. The trial court sentenced Wilson to a 15-year total term of incarceration. Appellant’s 3.850 motion generally avers that the guidelines scoresheet erroneously scored 86 points for prior convictions. Appellant’s motion makes no effort to identify which of the prior convictions were erroneously included. We would therefore ordinarily affirm the denial of the motion based upon insufficiency of the motion.
However, there is an obvious computational error in the guidelines scoresheet which requires reversal of the sentences and a remand for resentencing.1 The category six scoresheet includes an assessment of 50 points for 10 prior category six convictions. But, according to the scoresheet, the total number of all prior felony convictions is eight, of which only seven could possibly be convictions for category six offenses.2 If, indeed, there were seven prior convictions for category six offenses, 35 points, not 50 points, would be assessable for prior convictions for category six offenses. This 15-point reduction in the total score would reduce the presumptive sentence by one cell. In view of this error, we vacate the sentence and remand for resentencing following recalculation of the scoresheet.
We find no error in the trial court’s summary denial of relief based on the other allegations in the motion.
ERVIN and NIMMONS, JJ., concur. MILLS, J., specially concurs with written opinion.
. A copy of the guidelines scoresheet is attached to the order denying the 3.850 motion.
. Florida Rule of Criminal Procedure 3.701(d)(15) provides:
15. Categories 3, 5, and 6 contain an additional factor to he scored under the heading of Prior Record: Prior convictions for similar offenses. Prior convictions scored under this factor should be calculated in addition to the general prior record score. Scoring is limited to prior felony convictions included within the category.
Therefore, only prior felony convictions may be scored under this factor. The scoresheet in the instant case indicates a prior record of one first degree felony punishable by life, one second degree felony, six third degree felonies, and thirteen misdemeanors. Category six encompasses thefts, forgery, and fraud, none of which are first degree felonies punishable by life.
MILLS, Justice,
specially concurring.
I concur in the majority’s finding that the obvious computational error in the guidelines scoresheet requires that the case be remanded for resentencing. I write only to voice my disagreement with the view that appellant’s motion was facially insufficient in the allegation that 86 points for prior convictions were erroneously added to his scoresheet.
Although appellant does not state which prior convictions were erroneously included, he unequivocally alleges that points for prior convictions were included in his score that should not have been. In my view, this allegation was sufficient to require the trial court to attach portions of the files and records of the case conclusively showing that points were properly assessed for prior convictions.
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Ousley v. State, 560 So. 2d 422 (Fla. 4th DCA 1990)…not have been included as part of the prior record on the guideline scoresheet. A reversal of a sentence and remand is required, where, as here, the resulting reduction in total score reduced the presumptive sentence by one cell. Wilson v. State, 514 So. 2d 1127 (Fla. 1st DCA 1987); Logan v. State, 511 So. 2d 442 (Fla. 5th DCA 1987). Therefore, we reverse the sentence and remand for consideration in the proper cell without the uncounseled misdemeanor conviction. In all other respects, we affirm. HERSEY,…