NANCY JOANNE SILLIKER, APPELLANT,
v.
STATE OF FLORIDA, APPELLEE

Fla. 5th DCA | 1992-04-17
No. 91-958
COWART and HARRIS, JJ., concur.
598 So. 2d 133 Florida District Court of Appeal, Fifth District (1992) Positive Treatment
Cited by 4 cases

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Synopsis

A sentencing guideline appeal addressing the improper use of legal constraint multipliers in scoring legal status points. The court affirmed the conviction and sentence in one habitual felony offender case but vacated sentences in six other cases for resentencing due to guideline errors identified following the Florida Supreme Court's decision in Flowers v. State.


Holding

The court held that the legal constraint multiplier was improper under Flowers v. State, and that the fifteen convictions in Case No. 90-16191 should not have been included on the scoresheet because the appellant was adjudicated a habitual felony offender as to the ten felonies, removing them from guideline consideration. The sentences in the six other cases must be vacated for resentencing.


Headnotes

[1] A legal constraint multiplier cannot be used in scoring legal status points.

[2] Convictions for which a defendant has been adjudicated a habitual felony offender should not be included on a sentencing scoresheet.

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Key Quotes

“Subsequent to sentencing, the Supreme Court of Florida held that a legal constraint multiplier could not be used in scoring legal status points.”

Establishes the key legal error that prohibited the trial court's multiplication of legal status points by the number of offenses committed under legal constraint.

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Facts & Procedural History

Appellant was convicted in seven circuit court cases of forgery, uttering forgery, and petit theft offenses, receiving a total sentence of twenty-five…

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Opinion of the Court
DAUKSCH, Judge.

DAUKSCH, Judge.

We withdraw the previous opinion and issue the following in its stead.

This is another sentencing guideline appeal involving the scoring of legal status points. In seven circuit court cases, appellant was convicted of numerous forgery, uttering a forgery,' and petit theft offenses. She received sentences totalling twenty-five years incarceration followed by fifteen years probation. In Circuit Court Case No. 90-16191, involving ten felonies and five misdemeanors, appellant was adjudicated a habitual felony offender. The other six cases involved prior offenses for which appellant had been placed on probation or community control. In the scoresheet adopted by the trial court, the fifteen convictions in Case No. 90-16191 were scored as the primary and additional offenses. The scoresheet multiplied the legal status points by the number of offenses committed by appellant while under legal constraint. Subsequent to sentencing, the Supreme Court of Florida held that a legal constraint multiplier could not be used in scoring legal status points. See Flowers v. State, 586 So. 2d 1058 (Fla.1991).

Although appellant raised only the legal status issue on appeal, we note for purposes of resentencing that the fifteen convictions in Case No. 90-16191 should not have been included on the score-sheet. Appellant was adjudicated a habitual felony offender as to the ten felonies thereby removing those convictions from guideline consideration. See Daniels v. State, 591 So. 2d 1103 (Fla. 5th DCA 1992). See also § 775.084(4)(e), Fla.Stat. (1991). It was not necessary to prepare a new scoresheet for the five misdemeanors since those convictions cannot be scored as primary offenses under the guidelines. Because the convictions in the six other cases were for prior offenses and were scored as prior record, the original scoresheet prepared for those eases should have been used at sentencing upon the revocation of probation. Daniels, supra. If in the future appellant commits another crime then the sentencing court may use all prior convictions, including these for which she is “habitualized” for scoring as prior record.

We affirm the judgment and sentence in Case No. 90-16191, since they are not affected by the guideline errors discussed above. We affirm the judgments but vacate the sentences in the six other cases and remand for resentencing. If the trial court uses a scoresheet that contains a legal constraint multiplier, that error should be corrected.

AFFIRMED in part, REVERSED in part and REMANDED.

COWART and HARRIS, JJ., concur.


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  • Ricardo v. State, 608 So. 2d 93 (Fla. 2d DCA 1992)
    …ion. We agree. By habitualizing an offense and giving a defendant a habitualized sentence on that offense, the court removes that offense from sentencing under the guidelines. King v. State, 597 So. 2d 309, 315 (Fla. 2d DCA 1992); Silliker v. State, 598 So. 2d 133 (Fla. 5th DCA 1992); Wyche v. [*95] State, 576 So. 2d 884, 886 (Fla. 1st DCA 1991). We hasten to add that while this reasoning prevents a court from using a habitualized offense as either the primary-offense at conviction or as an additional offense…
  • Sheffield v. State, 214 So. 3d 763 (Fla. 1st DCA 2017)
    …DCA 1999); Alexander v. State, 680 So. 2d 635 (Fla. 4th DCA 1996); Byrd v. State, 643 So. 2d 1209 (Fla. 1st DCA 1994); Eaddy v. State, 626 So. 2d 291 (Fla. 4th DCA 1993); Ricardo v. State, 608 So. 2d 93, 94-95 (Fla. 2d DCA 1992); Silliker v. State, 598 So. 2d 133, 134 (Fla. 5th DCA 1992); Wyche v. State, 576 So. 2d 884, 886 (Fla. 1st DCA 1991). Accordingly, counts I and II should not have been included on the scoresheet, leaving count III as the primary offense. Since possession of cocaine is not a violati…

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