MICHAEL D. DUER, APPELLANT,
v.
STATE OF FLORIDA, APPELLEE

Fla. 5th DCA | 1999-05-07
No. 99-663
THOMPSON and ANTOON, JJ., concur.
733 So. 2d 1084 Florida District Court of Appeal, Fifth District (1999)

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Synopsis

Duer appealed the summary denial of his Rule 3.850 motion challenging his two-year community control sentence as not part of his plea agreement and arguing he should be resentenced due to inadequate proof of offense dates. The Florida appellate court affirmed, finding the community control issue procedurally barred and the date/time issue unpreserved and without sufficient grounds for plea withdrawal.


Holding

The court affirmed the trial court's summary denial of Duer's Rule 3.850 motion. The community control issue was procedurally barred because it could have been raised on direct appeal but was not. The date/time issue was unpreserved and lacked sufficient grounds for plea withdrawal because Duer did not allege he would not have entered his plea had he correctly understood the percentages.


Headnotes

[1] A claim that a sentence includes a provision not part of the plea agreement is procedurally barred in a post-conviction relief motion if it could have been raised on dire…

[2] A defendant seeking to withdraw a plea based on a misunderstanding of sentencing consequences must allege under oath that they would not have entered the plea had they co…

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“post-conviction claims procedurally barred when they could have been raised on direct appeal”

Establishes that Duer's failure to raise the community control issue on his direct appeal bars him from raising it in his Rule 3.850 motion

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Facts & Procedural History

In 1996, Duer pleaded nolo contendere to three counts of lewd acts on a child and one count of contributing to delinquency of a minor. The plea agreem…

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Opinion of the Court
W. SHARP, J.

Duer appeals from the summary denial of his motion filed pursuant to Florida Rule of Criminal Procedure 3.850. He seeks to have his two-year community control sentence, which was to follow a seven-year prison term, stricken because it was not part of his plea agreement. Duer also argues he should be resentenced because the state failed to prove the dates and time the offenses occurred in one criminal case, thereby causing him to serve 85% of his sentence pursuant to section 944.275(4)(b), Florida Statutes, which applies to offenses committed on or after October 1, 1995. We affirm.

In 1996, Duer pled nolo contendere to three counts of performing a lewd act on a child1 and one count of contributing to the delinquency of a minor.2 In exchange, the state nol prossed a number of other counts.

Pursuant to the plea agreement, Duer was to be adjudicated on the four counts, each of which involved a separate victim. He agreed to be sentenced to seven years total .on all counts, to run concurrently, and for probation after prison, with a cap of twenty-two years. At sentencing the judge imposed a sentence consistent with the plea agreement, except for a two-year term on community control: three concurrent seven-year prison terms for the three felonies, followed by two years of community control with the sex-offender program, followed by six years of probation on each of the felony counts, to be served consecutively.

Duer did not raise the issue of the propriety of the community control portion of his sentence at the sentencing hearing, nor did he timely file a motion to correct the sentence within thirty days after rendition, pursuant to Florida Rule of Criminal Procedure 3.800(b). He did bring a direct appeal to this court, but failed to raise either of the alleged sentencing errors argued in this proceeding. Duer v. State, 701 So. 2d 1273 (Fla. 5th DCA 1997).

With regard to the community control provision, we think this issue is one that could have been raised in the direct appeal.

Therefore, raising it in this proceeding is improper. See, e.g., Robinson v. State, 707 So. 2d 688 (Fla.1998) (post-conviction claims procedurally barred when they could have been raised on direct appeal); Rose v. State, 675 So. 2d 567 (Fla.1996) (claims barred which were or should have been raised on appeal). Further, had Duer raised it in his direct appeal, it would have failed because he never sought to withdraw his plea of no contest pursuant to Florida Rule of Appellate Procedure 9.140(b) (2) (B) (ii). Duer’s appeal was brought prior to our decision in Maddox v. State, 708 So. 2d 617 (Fla. 5th DCA) (en banc), rev. granted, 718 So. 2d 169 (Fla.1998).

Thus, contrary to defendant’s assertion, our reason for affirming the trial court’s decision in this proceeding does not depend upon Maddox or rule 3.800(b).

With regard to the second issue, that the state did not prove as part of its factual basis at the plea hearing the exact date and time of some of the offenses, Duer has not established any error occurred. At the sentencing hearing there was no discussion. concerning what percentage of time he would have to serve, and Duer does not allege he entered his plea based on any particular expectation. See Caballero v. State, 696 So. 2d 505 (Fla. 5th DCA 1997).

As pointed out above, Duer has never sought to withdraw his plea based on a misconception on his part that he would serve a shorter percentage of time than will be required, so this issue has not been preserved. But even if it had been, Duer does not allege under oath that he would not have entered his nolo plea had he correctly understood the percentages, and thus there is no valid basis to withdraw the plea.

AFFIRMED.

THOMPSON and ANTOON, JJ., concur. . § 800.04(3), (4), Fla. Stat. (1993), (1995).

. § 827.04(3), Fla. Stat. (1993).


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