ROBERT ALLEN DRAVES, APPELLANT,
v.
STATE OF FLORIDA, APPELLEE

Fla. 2d DCA | 2005-01-05
No. 2D03-4505
Villanti, J., Casanueva, J., Kelly, J.
889 So. 2d 1015 Florida District Court of Appeal, Second District (2005)

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Synopsis

The court reversed and remanded for correction of sentencing documents to conform the written sentence to the oral pronouncement, and certified conflict regarding the constitutionality of sexual predator designation requirements.


Holding

A trial court's written sentencing documents must be corrected to conform to the oral pronouncement of sentence.


Headnotes

[1] A trial court's written sentencing documents must be corrected to conform to the oral pronouncement of sentence when the two conflict.

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Facts & Procedural History

Draves pleaded nolo contendere to lewd assault and lewd or lascivious molestation. The trial court orally sentenced him to ten years' imprisonment on …

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Opinion of the Court
VILLANTI, Judge.

VILLANTI, Judge.

Robert Draves entered a plea of nolo contendere to lewd assault (count one) and lewd or lascivious molestation (count two). Pursuant to Draves’ plea agreement with the State, the trial court orally sentenced him to ten years’ imprisonment on count two, followed by ten years’ probation on count one. Despite the oral pronouncement, the trial court’s written sentence reflects that Draves was sentenced to concurrent terms of imprisonment on both counts, followed by concurrent terms of probation on both counts. Draves raised this issue in a motion to correct illegal sentence. The State concedes that Draves’ sentence must be corrected to conform with the oral pronouncement. See Ashley v. State, 850 So. 2d 1265, 1268 (Fla.2008). Accordingly, we reverse and remand for correction of the sentencing documents.

Draves filed an additional motion to correct sentence challenging his sexual predator designation on procedural due process grounds, citing Espindola v. State, 855 So. 2d 1281 (Fla. 3d DCA 2003) (determining that the sexual predator designation requirements of the Jimmy Ryce Act violate procedural due process). Draves acknowledges that Espindola conflicts with Milks v. State, 848 So. 2d 1167 (Fla. 2d DCA), review granted, 859 So. 2d 514 (Fla.2003), and requests that we again certify conflict so that his argument may also be preserved for review. We so certify.

Reversed and remanded for correction of sentence; conflict certified.

CASANUEVA and KELLY, JJ„ Concur.


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