HENRY FRANQUIZ, APPELLANT,
v.
THE STATE OF FLORIDA, APPELLEE

Fla. 3d DCA | 1998-11-25
No. 97-02209
Before COPE, GREEN, and SORONDO, JJ.
724 So. 2d 128 Florida District Court of Appeal, Third District (1998) Positive Treatment
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Synopsis

Henry Franquiz appeals his resentencing to twenty years imprisonment plus ten years probation for violations of community control. The Florida Supreme Court had previously remanded the case for resentencing due to improper departure sentencing procedures, and on remand, the trial court imposed a guidelines sentence rather than the original ten-year downward departure.


Holding

The court affirmed the sentencing order, holding that the successor judge properly resentenced Franquiz and that calling the victim's telephone number in violation of a no-contact order, even without speaking to the victim, constitutes a willful violation of community control.


Headnotes

[1] A defendant who pleads guilty to a violation of community control cannot later argue that the violation was not willful where the defendant elected to stand by the plea a…

[2] A successor judge is presumed to be familiar with the facts and prior history of a case when imposing sentence, absent an objection or specific request for further action…

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“Pursuant to a post-remand plea agreement, defendant adhered to his earlier-entered plea of guilty to a violation of community control in exchange for a twenty-year sentence followed by ten years probation.”

Establishes the terms of the resentencing agreement and the sentence at issue.

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Facts & Procedural History

Franquiz pleaded guilty to violations of community control, specifically calling the victim's telephone number in violation of a no-contact order. Ori…

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Opinion of the Court
PER CURIAM.

PER CURIAM.

Defendant-appellant Henry Franquiz appeals the sentence imposed after remand from Franquiz v. State, 682 So. 2d 536 (Fla.1996). Pursuant to a post-remand plea agreement, defendant adhered to his earlier-entered plea of guilty to a violation of community control in exchange for a twenty-year sentence followed by ten years probation. As part of the agreement, defendant reserved two issues for appeal. Neither of the reserved issues has merit.*

Defendant argues, in addition, that the successor judge failed to fully inform himself about the facts and prior history of this ease, before resentencing. This is not one of the two issues which defendant reserved for appeal, nor is there any indication that the defendant interposed any such objection with the successor judge, nor does the record show any specific request by the defendant for the successor judge to take any further, or different, action prior to imposing sentence. The successor judge took considerable time with this case prior to resentencing, and the record reflects that the successor judge was thoroughly familiar with the background and circumstances. See Spencer v. State, 611 So. 2d 16 (Fla. 3d DCA 1992); Fla. R.Crim. P. 3.700(c)(1).

Defendant also contends that the claimed violations of community control, consisting of the defendant’s acts of calling the victim’s telephone number in violation of a “no contact” order, did not amount to a willful violation of community control where defendant never actually spoke to the victim. This, too, is not one of the two issues which defendant reserved for appeal. Moreover, although given the option to withdraw his plea of guilty, defendant elected to stand by his plea and did not raise this argument in the trial court. Accordingly, the sentencing order is

Affirmed.

*

Defendant moved to dismiss the post-remand proceedings on the theoiy that the trial court in its initial revocation proceedings had merely modified defendant's community control, rather than revoking it. Defendant contended that a mere modification of community control did not trigger a requirement that there be written reasons for downward departure. However, it is clear that an affidavit of violation of community control had been filed in this case, and that defendant entered a guilty plea to the violation. This was properly viewed as a resentencing after revocation of community control.

Defendant also contended that the successor judge on resentencing should be held to the terms of the original plea agreement between the defendant and the predecessor judge, pursuant to which the defendant had been given a downward departure sentence of ten years. However, the Florida Supreme Court’s ruling in this case had the effect of overturning the ten-year downward departure sentence, and remanding for further proceedings. The defendant was given the option of withdrawing his plea. See id. at 538. Because the law had been unclear on the need for written departure reasons in the case of a successive downward departure sentence, the Florida Supreme Court allowed the trial court on remand to consider entering another downward departure sentence if there were valid reasons to do so. See id. After advice of counsel, defendant elected not to withdraw his previously entered plea of guilty to the affidavit of violation. The trial court entered a guidelines sentence.


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  • Peters v. State, 128 So. 3d 832 (Fla. 4th DCA 2013)
    …e successor judge “took considerable time with th[e] case prior to resentenc-ing, and ... was thoroughly familiar with the background and circumstances,” the resulting sentence will generally be upheld as independently formulated. Franquiz v. State, 724 So. 2d 128, 129 (Fla. 3d DCA 1998); Davis v. State, 677 So. 2d 1366, 1368 (Fla. 4th DCA 1996) (successor judge “acquired the degree of familiarity with the case that is required by the rule” by “reviewing] the predisposition report, hearing] testimony from a c…
  • Deleon Brownlee v. State (Fla. 3d DCA 2023)
    …ence. Nonetheless, the oral pronouncements of the trial court at the resentencing hearing contradict Brownlee’s contention that he did not receive a de novo resentencing independent of the intent of the predecessor judge. See Franquiz v. State, 724 So. 2d 128, 129 (Fla. 3d DCA 1998) (where record demonstrates that successor judge “took considerable time with . . . case prior to resentencing, and . . . was thoroughly familiar with the background and circumstances,” resulting sentence will generally be…

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