MICHAEL JEROME DORTCH, APPELLANT,
v.
STATE OF FLORIDA, APPELLEE
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PER CURIAM.
We have for review the sentence imposed on Michael Jerome Dortch (Dortch) using an incorrectly calculated scoresheet. The scoresheet included eighty-six points for two first-degree felony offenses for which Dortch was not convicted: sale of cocaine within 1000 yards of a school, and possession of cocaine with intent to deliver within 1000 yards of a school. The scoresheet error placed Dortch in a harsher sentencing guidelines range than the range permitted using a correctly calculated scoresheet; Dortch furthermore actually received a harsher sentence than that permitted using a correctly calculated scoresheet. This was error and the error was harmful. Hills v. State, 661 So. 2d 1314 (Fla. 1st DCA 1995).
We therefore reverse and remand for resentencing using a correctly calculated scoresheet. The judge, on resentencing, may impose any sentence he previously could have imposed on a correctly calculated score-sheet, that is, he may impose a departure sentence, so long as he provides written reasons for the departure. Id.
ERVIN, MICKLE and LAWRENCE, JJ., concur.
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Neal v. State, 695 So. 2d 496 (Fla. 1st DCA 1997)…upon an incorrectly calculated scoresheet. The minimum sentence upon a correctly calculated scoresheet would have been 98.5 months, rather than 112 [*497] months. Neal thus was prejudiced by the error, and resentencing is required. Dortch v. State, 668 So. 2d 1091 (Fla. 1st DCA 1996). We therefore affirm in part, reverse in part, and remand for resentencing upon a correctly calculated scoresheet. MINER and PADOVANO, JJ., concur.…
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- Hills v. State, 661 So. 2d 1314 (Fla. 1st DCA 1995)