BILL MACKEY, APPELLANT,
v.
STATE OF FLORIDA, APPELLEE
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Bill Mackey appeals his conviction for lewd and lascivious assault on a child, challenging the trial court's assessment of 20 points for victim injury on the sentencing scoresheet despite the absence of physical trauma. The court affirmed, holding that victim injury points are properly scored based on the type of contact involved rather than physical trauma in sexual offense cases.
The court held that the trial court correctly assessed 20 points for victim injury. Under Florida sentencing guidelines for sexual offenses, victim injury is scored based on the category of contact involved, not solely on the presence of physical trauma. Where a lewd and lascivious assault involves victim contact, the 'contact but no penetration' category applies, warranting 20 points.
[1] Victim injury points may be assessed on a sentencing scoresheet for lewd and lascivious assault involving victim contact, even in the absence of physical trauma.
[2] The "contact but no penetration" scoring category for victim injury in sexual offenses is applicable when the defendant's actions involved touching the victim.
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Join FLexlaw to unlock all legal intelligence“Victim injury is to be scored for each victim for whom the defendant is convicted of injuring and is limited to physical trauma”
Rule 3.701(d)(7) commentary that appellant relied upon, which the court distinguished as not controlling the scoresheet application
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Join FLexlaw to unlock all legal intelligenceOn May 17-19, 1985, Mackey unlawfully touched a 13-year-old child about the crotch in a lewd and lascivious manner. Mackey pleaded nolo contendere to …
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JOANOS, Judge.
Bill Mackey appeals the final judgment and sentence for his conviction of lewd and lascivious assault upon a child less than 16 years of age. He argues that the trial court erred in assessing 20 points for victim injury on the scoresheet in the absence of the victim having suffered physical trauma. We disagree and affirm.
The information charging appellant alleged that on or about May 17 through May 19, 1985, appellant unlawfully handled, fondled or made an assault upon a 13 year old child, in a lewd and lascivious or indecent manner ... by touching the victim about the crotch, contrary to section 800.-04, Florida Statutes. Appellant pled nolo contendere to the charge on July 17, 1986. The state attorney prepared the scoresheet which assessed 20 points for victim injury, contact but no penetration. Appellant was sentenced to 24 months of community control which was the agreed sentence pursuant to his plea bargain. Mackey is appealing the scoring of this 20 points for victim injury.
The addition of the 20 points for victim injury raises the sentence from the non-state prison sanction it would have been had no injury been scored.
Appellant seeks to have his sentencing score recalculated now but, he did agree to the 24 months of community control instead of a possible jail sentence, in exchange for a plea of nolo contendere. Further, the guideline sentence for the score of 178 which includes victim injury has a maximum of 30 months community control, six more than appellant actually received. In Worling v. State, 484 So. 2d 94 (Fla. 5th DCA 1986), where Worling was charged in the information with lewd and lascivious assault worded identically to the charge against appellant here, the court found that section 800.04 Florida Statutes is worded in the disjunctive such that it can encompass acts involving victim contact and those without victim contact. The court found that because Worling, like appellant here, had touched the victim as charged in the information, the trial court did not err by adding twenty points to his guidelines scoresheet. Also, although Barrentine v. State, 504 So. 2d 533 (Fla. 1st DCA 1987), is distinguished by the violence of the assault, therein Barrentine was convicted of lewd and lascivious assault upon a child and was scored the same 20 points as appellant here for victim injury.
This court concluded that where the offense of lewd and lascivious assault involves victim contact, that fact may be scored on the guidelines scoresheet. Id. at 534.
Appellant refers us to the Note to Rule 3.701(d)(7) Florida Rules Criminal Procedure, which provides that “[Vjictim injury is to be scored for each victim for whom the defendant is convicted of injuring and is limited to physical trauma”. If that comment controlled the situation, there would probably be no victim injury here because there was no apparent physical trauma in this case.
However, the scoresheet for category 2, sexual offenses, provides only four choices for scoring victim injury and the only one applicable to these facts is “contact but no penetration,” a total of 20 points.
We find that here, as in Barren-tine, the trial court correctly applied the rules to the scoresheet as designed. If that application is in error then it appears that the scoresheet needs to be amended. Until such an amendment is made, we find that Barrentine controls and therefore we affirm appellant’s conviction and sentence.
SMITH, C.J., and WENTWORTH, J., concur.
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Altman v. State, 756 So. 2d 148 (Fla. 4th DCA 2000)…ring only to the contact occurring in a sexual battery by union without penetration. [Emphasis supplied.] Id. at 182. Under prior case law, points for sexual contact could be assessed more broadly than Reyes would appear to allow. Mackey v. State, 516 So. 2d 330 (Fla. 1st DCA 1987)(points properly assessed for contact where defendant fondled a 13-year-old child by touching victim above crotch); Beasley v. State, 503 So. 2d 1347, 1349 (Fla. 5th DCA 1987)(points properly assessed for sexual contact where defe…
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