STATE OF FLORIDA, APPELLANT,
v.
DERRICK L. WILLIAMS, APPELLEE

Fla. 5th DCA | 1995-04-07
No. 94-1514
HARRIS, C.J., and GRIFFIN, J., concur.
652 So. 2d 517 Florida District Court of Appeal, Fifth District (1995) Positive Treatment
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Opinion of the Court
PETERSON, Judge.

PETERSON, Judge.

We vacate the “reverse split sentence” which was imposed upon the appellant without contemporaneous written reasons for the downward departure, and we remand for sentencing within the guidelines. § 948.01(11), Fla.Stat. (1991); Bell v. State, 651 So. 2d 237 (Fla. 5th DCA 1995); State v. Disbrow, 626 So. 2d 1123 (Fla. 5th DCA 1993), approved, 642 So. 2d 740 (Fla.1994).

SENTENCE VACATED; REMANDED.

HARRIS, C.J., and GRIFFIN, J., concur.


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