PAUL CAVANAGH, APPELLANT,
v.
STATE OF FLORIDA, APPELLEE
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The court held that the defendant is entitled to further review of his claim that the sentencing guidelines used were unconstitutional.
Paul Cavanagh pleaded guilty to aggravated assault, violated probation, and was sentenced. He now claims the sentencing guidelines used by the trial j…
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PER CURIAM.
Paul Cavanagh, appeals from an order summarily denying his motion for post-conviction relief. We reverse and remand for further review of Cavanagh’s Heggs based point. Heggs v. State, 759 So. 2d 620 (Fla.2000).
Cavanagh pleaded guilty to four counts of aggravated assault. He was sentenced to community control followed by a probationary term. A subsequent violation led to revocation of Cavanagh’s probation. Cavanagh alleges that he pleaded to the violation, and was sentenced by the trial court to a bottom of the guidelines sentence, seventy three months.
Cavanagh’s claim is that the sentencing guidelines used by the trial judge have been declared unconstitutional. Heggs, 759 So. 2d at 620, Trapp v. State, 760 So. 2d 924 (Fla.2000); Latalian v. State, 786 So. 2d 1242 (Fla. 4th DCA 2001).
Though not entitled to resentencing automatically, Cavanagh is entitled to further review of this claim. See Latalian, 786 So. 2d at 1243. Accordingly, we reverse and remand for an evidentiary hearing or further attachments refuting the claim. If the trial court determines that Cavanagh is entitled to relief, the state will have the option of either agreeing to a new sentence or withdrawing from the plea agreement and proceeding to a violation of probation hearing.
FARMER, C.J., STONE and GROSS, JJ., concur.
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- Heggs v. State, 759 So. 2d 620 (Fla. 2000)
- Xzavier Trapp v. State, 760 So. 2d 924 (Fla. 2000)
- Latalian v. State, 786 So. 2d 1242 (Fla. 4th DCA 2001)