CURTIS JERMAINE CRAY
v.
STATE OF FLORIDA

Fla. 2d DCA | 2020-02-28
No. 18-3372
Florida District Court of Appeal, Second District (2020)

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Synopsis

The appellate court affirmed the convictions and sentences of Curtis Jermaine Cray but remanded the case to correct a scrivener's error in the written judgment. The error inaccurately described the offenses as "sexual assault" instead of "sexual battery."


Holding

The court held that the written judgment contained a scrivener's error by misidentifying the offenses as "sexual assault" instead of "sexual battery." The convictions and sentences are otherwise correct.


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[1] A scrivener's error in a written judgment that misidentifies the statutory offense when the trial court's oral pronouncement and applicable law clearly establish the corr…

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“We have, however, identified a scrivener's error on the face of the written judgment.”

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Facts & Procedural History

Curtis Jermaine Cray pleaded no contest to multiple counts of sexual battery and lewd or lascivious molestation. He was sentenced accordingly. However…

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Opinion of the Court
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SALARIO, Judge. This is an appeal proceeding in accord with Anders v. California, 386 U.S. 738 (1967). Curtis Jermaine Cray pleaded no contest to one count of attempted sexual battery on a victim under twelve, see §§ 794.011(2)(a), 777.04, Fla. Stat. (2013), two counts of sexual battery on a victim under twelve and over whom he held a position of

- 2 - familial authority, see § 794.011(8)(b), Fla. Stat. (2014), and one count of lewd or lascivious molestation on a victim under twelve, see § 800.04(5)(b), Fla. Stat (2013). He was sentenced to concurrent terms of thirty years on each of the sexual battery counts and to a concurrent fifty-year sentence, with a twenty-five-year minimum mandatory and to be followed by a life term of sex-offender probation, on the lewd or lascivious molestation count.

We affirm these convictions and sentences without comment. We have, however, identified a scrivener's error on the face of the written judgment. It concerns the identification of the offenses to which Mr. Cray pleaded guilty and of which he was convicted and sentenced. Mr. Cray's plea was entered and accepted on counts one through three for violations of sections 794.011, the sexual battery statute.

The trial court orally pronounced convictions of the sexual battery offenses charged in those counts and sentenced Mr. Cray in accord with those convictions. But the written judgment inaccurately describes the convictions as being for crimes of "sexual assault," not for crimes of sexual battery. Sexual assault is not a crime under section 794.011, which deals solely with types of sexual battery. Aside from the misidentification of the offenses of conviction, the written judgment otherwise correctly reflects the applicable statutes and degrees of offense for counts one through three as pleaded to by Mr. Cray and as pronounced by the trial court. The scrivener's error is thus limited to the language on the written judgment describing the offenses as something other than sexual battery.

Accordingly, we remand the case to the trial court to correct the written judgment to reflect that counts one through three were for the crimes of sexual battery—not sexual assault—to which Mr. Cray pleaded and on which he was convicted and sentenced, in keeping with the

- 3 - trial court's oral pronouncement on those matters. See Pickett v. State, 573 So. 2d 177, 178 (Fla. 2d DCA 1991); Durdick v. State, 476 So. 2d 317, 318 (Fla. 2d DCA 1985). Affirmed; remanded. NORTHCUTT and LaROSE, JJ., Concur.


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