STUART GIANNANDREA, APPELLANT,
v.
STATE OF FLORIDA, APPELLEE
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Appellant Giannandrea appealed his community control revocation conviction, challenging the trial court's failure to conduct a Richardson hearing regarding discovery compliance, its calculation of jail time credit, and its imposition of a sentence exceeding the statutory maximum. The court affirmed the conviction but reversed and remanded the sentence for resentencing due to statutory maximum violations.
The court held that the trial court's failure to rule on the Discovery Stipulation agreement was harmless error and affirmed the community control violation. However, the court held that the trial court erred in denying 103 days credit for time served and in imposing a sentence exceeding the statutory maximum by one year and eleven months.
[1] A trial court's failure to rule on the applicability of a discovery stipulation to a community control revocation hearing may be harmless error under the specific facts o…
[2] A trial court errs in failing to grant a defendant credit for all time served prior to sentencing.
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Establishes that the discovery error was harmless and the conviction was affirmed
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PER CURIAM.
Appellant appeals his conviction and sentence for violating his community control, arguing the trial court should have determined whether a Richardson1 hearing was necessary, should have granted him 103 days credit for time served instead of only 78 days, and should not have imposed a sentence that exceeded the statutory maximum. We affirm in part, reverse in part and remand.
Appellant pleaded no contest to possession of cocaine, and was sentenced to eighteen months probation. Fifteen months later, his probation was revoked and he was placed on community control, with the added requirement of serving thirty days in jail. Appellant was to serve the jail time on the weekends. Six months after this appellant was charged with violating his community control for failing to submit weekly logs and failing to report to jail on the weekends.
At the community control revocation hearing, appellant objected to the state’s use of appellant’s jail records. Appellant argued the state had violated discovery by not providing him with a copy of the records prior to the hearing. Appellant requested a Richardson hearing. The state argued the Discovery Stipulation agreement between the state attorney’s office and the public defender’s office did not apply to a community control revocation hearing. The trial court admitted that it did not know whether the Discovery Stipulation agreement covered this situation. We hold that the trial court’s failure to rule on whether the Discovery Stipulation agreement applied to community control revocation hearings was harmless under the facts of this case. Accordingly, we affirm the violation of community control.
The state concedes the trial court erred in failing to grant appellant 103 days credit for time served. Moreover, the trial court erred in sentencing appellant because the sentence exceeded the statutory maximum sentence by one year and eleven months. Appellant was sentenced to probation on December 15, 1989. Section 775.082(3)(d), Florida Statutes (1989), provided a maximum sentence of five years for a third degree felony. Thus, the maximum sentence would have ended on December 15, 1994. The trial court revoked appellant’s probation on May 8, 1992, and sentenced him to four and one-half years probation. This sentence would run until November 8, 1996, nearly one year and eleven months longer than the statutory maximum. We hold, as the second district held in Medina v. State, 604 So. 2d 30 (Fla. 2d DCA 1992), that it is reversible error for a trial court to impose a sentence which exceeds the statutory maximum, as computed from the initial sentencing date.
Accordingly, we affirm the conviction but reverse appellant’s sentence and remand to the trial court for resentencing.
GLICKSTEIN, J., and OWEN, WILLIAM C., Jr., Senior Judge, concur. GUNTHER, J., concurs in part and dissents in part with opinion.
. Richardson v. State, 246 So. 2d 771 (Fla.1971).
GUNTHER, Judge,
concurring in part and dissenting in part.
In my view, it was harmful error for the trial court not to rule on the application of the Discovery Stipulation agreement. I would reverse the revocation and remand with direction to make such ruling; and if deemed applicable to these proceedings, to conduct a Richardson hearing and determine if a violation has occurred.
I agree with the majority’s conclusions as to the sentencing errors.
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Roundtree v. State, 637 So. 2d 325 (Fla. 4th DCA 1994)…time served prior to the violation with the subsequent probationary term, exceeds the statutory maximum. See Wardell v. State, 631 So. 2d 1130 (Fla. 5th DCA 1994); Summers v. State, 625 So. 2d 876 (Fla. 2d DCA 1993) (en banc); Giannandrea v. State, 621 So. 2d 582 (Fla. 4th DCA 1993); Ogden v. State, 605 So. 2d 155 (Fla. 5th DCA 1992). Additionally, we can discern no reason for not applying the same reasoning when combining time spent on community control with a subsequent probation. But see Williams v. State…
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- Richardson v. State, 246 So. 2d 771 (Fla. 1971)
- Medina v. State, 604 So. 2d 30 (Fla. 2d DCA 1992)