KATHERINE BEAGLING, APPELLANT,
v.
STATE OF FLORIDA, APPELLEE

Fla. 5th DCA | 1996-02-16
No. 95-0786
HARRIS and THOMPSON, JJ., concur.
667 So. 2d 1019 Florida District Court of Appeal, Fifth District (1996) Positive Treatment
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Synopsis

Katherine Beagling appeals her sentences imposed upon violation of probation, arguing they exceed the statutory maximum for third degree felonies. The court agrees and reverses, holding that when a defendant's probation is revoked and ressentenced, the trial court must credit time previously served on community control and/or probation so the total does not exceed the statutory maximum.


Holding

The trial court must credit time previously served on community control and/or probation when resentencing upon probation revocation, so that the total term of probation and community control does not exceed the statutory maximum. By imposing additional two-year probation terms without crediting prior supervision time, the court improperly subjected the defendant to seven years of total state supervision, exceeding the five-year maximum.


Headnotes

[1] Upon revocation of probation, a trial court must credit time previously served on community control and/or probation towards a newly-imposed term of probation for the sam…

[2] The total term of state supervision, including time served on community control and probation, cannot exceed the statutory maximum for the offense.

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“Where, as here, a trial court initially imposes community control followed by probation, the trial court must upon revocation credit the time the defendant previously served on community control and/or probation to a newly-imposed term of probation for the same offense so that the total term of probation and community control served does not exceed the statutory maximum.”

States the controlling legal rule requiring credit for time served on community control/probation when resentencing after revocation.

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Facts & Procedural History

In November 1989, Beagling was convicted of two counts of resisting an officer with violence and two counts of battery on a law enforcement officer, e…

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Opinion of the Court
ANTOON, Judge.

ANTOON, Judge.

Katherine Beagling (defendant) appeals the sentences imposed upon a violation of probation, arguing that the sentences exceed the maximum term authorized by statute. We agree and reverse.

In November 1989, the defendant was charged with two counts of resisting an officer with violence1 (Counts I and III), and two counts of battery on a law enforcement officer2 (Counts IV and V).3 Each of these offenses is a third degree felony punishable by a maximum term of five years’ state supervision.4 The jury returned verdicts of guilty as charged, and the defendant was sentenced to concurrent terms of two years’ community control followed by five years’ probation on each offense. The defendant’s sentences of community control were later transferred to sentences of probation.5

Following a violation of probation in 1992, the trial court reinstated the defendant’s probation on all counts. When the defendant violated her probation a second time in 1995, the trial court adjudicated her guilty, terminated her probation, and resen-tenced her to concurrent terms of two years’ probation. The defendant now challenges these sentences, arguing that the sentences are illegal because, when combined with the time she has already served on community control and probation, the sentences exceed the five-year statutory maximum authorized for third degree felonies. We agree. Where, as here, a trial court initially imposes community control followed by probation, the trial court must upon revocation credit the time the defendant previously served on community control and/or probation to a newly-imposed term of probation for the same offense so that the total term of probation and community control served does not exceed the statutory maximum. Waters v. State, 662 So. 2d 332 (Fla.1995); State v. Roundtree, 644 So. 2d 1358, 1359 (Fla.1994); Kolovrat v. State, 574 So. 2d 294 (Fla. 5th DCA 1991). See also State v. Wardell, 642 So. 2d 745 (Fla.1994); State v. Summers, 642 So. 2d 742 (Fla.1994). By imposing the additional terms of two years’ probation, the trial court improperly subjected the defendant to a total of seven years’ state supervision.6 Accordingly, the defendant’s sentences are reversed and this case remanded for resentencing.

REVERSED and REMANDED.

HARRIS and THOMPSON, JJ., concur. . § 843.01, Fla.Stat. (1989).

. § 784.07(2)(a), Fla.Stat. (1989).

. The defendant was also convicted and sentenced on Count II of disorderly intoxication, section 856.011, Florida Statutes (1989). This sentence has not been challenged.

.§ 775.082(3)(d), Fla.Stat. (1989).

. § 948.01(7), Fla.Stat. (1989).

. In so ruling we reject the state’s argument that it was permissible to sentence the defendant to a term of supervision greater than five years because the trial court could have initially imposed consecutive sentences.


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  • Gardner v. State, 670 So. 2d 1185 (Fla. 5th DCA 1996)
    …ime imposed does not exceed the statutory maximum. Shoda v. State, 666 So. 2d 134 (Fla.1996); Waters v. State, 662 So. 2d 332 (Fla.1995); State v. Roundtree, 644 So. 2d 1358 (Fla.1994); State v. Summers, 642 So. 2d 742 (Flá.1994); Beagling v. State, 667 So. 2d 1019 (Fla. 5th DCA 1996); Gardner v. State, 656 So. 2d 933 (Fla. 1st DCA 1995).2 Here, by sentencing Gardner to two years community control on Count I, after he had already served approximately three and a half years in prison and additional time on prob…

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