SHAWN ADAM BANCK, APPELLANT,
v.
STATE OF FLORIDA, APPELLEE
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Shawn Banck appealed his resentencing following Heggs v. State, arguing he had a plea agreement for a low-end guidelines sentence. The court affirmed the resentencing to 66.5 months under the 1994 guidelines, finding the parties bargained under the 1995 guidelines and Banck is only entitled to a sentence conforming to the 1994 guidelines.
Banck is not entitled to a low-end sentence under the 1994 guidelines. He is only entitled to a sentence conforming to the 1994 guidelines, and the court does not decide whether other relief based on mutual mistake or involuntary plea might be available.
[1] A defendant resentenced pursuant to Heggs v. …
[2] A plea agreement is not automatically invalidated by a subsequent change in sentencing guidelines.
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Join FLexlaw to unlock all legal intelligence“It is clear that both parties were bargaining in the belief that the 1995 guidelines were controlling. Accordingly, Banck is not entitled to the relief on appeal he seeks. He is only entitled to a sentence conforming to the 1994 guidelines.”
Establishes that because both parties bargained under the 1995 guidelines, Banck cannot claim entitlement to a low-end sentence under the 1994 guidelines.
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GRIFFIN, J.
This is yet another case involving the relationship of the decision of the Supreme Court of Florida in Heggs v. State, 759 So. 2d 620 (Fla.2000) and a defendant’s plea agreement. Previously, the lower court ordered resentencing pursuant to Heggs because defendant, Shawn Adam Banck’s [“Banck]” sentence under the 1995 guidelines would have been a departure sentence under the 1994 guidelines. At resentencing, the State presented a score-sheet prepared in accordance with the 1994 guidelines. The scoresheet reflected a sentencing range of between 39.9 and 66.5 months of imprisonment for the relevant offense, which was burglary of a dwelling.
The trial court sentenced Banck to the high end of the permitted range— 66.5 months of imprisonment. His previous sentence had been 75.6 months under the 1995 guidelines. Banck objected to the sentence, urging that he had originally bargained with the State for a sentence at the “bottom end” of the guidelines and, accordingly, that agreement should be honored.
The record reflects that the 1995 guidelines scoresheet showed a sentencing range of between 75.6 months and 126 months.
On appeal, Banck reiterates his argument that he had an agreement with the State for a low-end guidelines sentence and that it was error not to resentence him to the low end of the 1994 guidelines. The transcript of the original sentencing hearing is, however, unclear as to the basis for the parties’ agreement. It appears that the State had the number of months Banck would servé very much in mind, but there is also reference to “bottom of the guidelines.” It is clear that both parties were bargaining in the belief that the 1995 guidelines were controlling.
Accordingly, Banck is not entitled to the relief on appeal he seeks. He is only entitled to a sentence conforming to the 1994 guidelines. Dudek v. State, 788 So. 2d 331 (Fla. 5th DCA 2001). We do not decide whether other relief based on mutual mistake or involuntary plea might be available. Compare Murphy v. State, 773 So. 2d 1174 (Fla. 2d DCA 2000) with Booker v. State, 771 So. 2d 1187 (Fla. 1st DCA 2000), review granted, 791 So. 2d 1095 (Fla. June 15, 2001).
AFFIRMED.
SAWAYA and PALMER, JJ., concur.
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- Booker v. State, 771 So. 2d 1187 (Fla. 1st DCA 2000)
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