HARRY PENNEY, A/K/A HARRY E. PENNEY, III, APPELLANT,
v.
STATE OF FLORIDA, APPELLEE
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The court held that a discrepancy between the oral pronouncement and written sentence for count three was harmless error.
The defendant was convicted of multiple felonies and sentenced. The written sentence for one count conflicted with the oral pronouncement regarding co…
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ALTENBERND, Judge.
Harry Penney, a/k/a Harry E. Penney, III, appeals his judgments and sentences for attempted first-degree murder, aggravated battery, four counts of aggravated assault, and one count of resisting an officer with violence. We affirm Mr. Penney’s convictions and sentences but write to address a sentencing error raised by Mr. Penney.
Mr. Penney was sentenced to thirty years’ imprisonment on count one for attempted first-degree murder; ten years’ imprisonment on count two for the aggravated battery; three years’ imprisonment for each of the aggravated assaults in counts three, four, five, and six; and five years’ imprisonment for resisting an officer with violence in count seven.
The trial court’s oral pronouncement of Mr. Penney’s sentences ordered that his sentences for counts two through six run concurrently with each other, but consecutively to count one. However, Mr. Penney’s written sentence for count three erroneously states that it is to run “concurrently” with the sentence in count one as opposed to “consecutively.”
Although the written sentence for count three differs from the oral pronouncement, any error is harmless because it does not affect the amount of time Mr. Penney will spend in prison. Because count two must run consecutively to count one, Mr. Penney will spend the same time in prison regardless of whether the three-year sentences are served concurrently with the thirty-year or the ten-year sentence.
Affirmed.
SILBERMAN and KELLY, JJ., Concur.