MORRIS DASHER, III, APPELLANT,
v.
STATE OF FLORIDA, APPELLEE

Fla. 5th DCA | 2007-05-18
No. 5D06-1486
Orfinger, J., Monaco, J., Evander, J.
956 So. 2d 1209 Florida District Court of Appeal, Fifth District (2007) Positive Treatment
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Synopsis

Appellate court vacated trial court's order correcting sentence because the order was filed beyond the sixty-day deadline, and defendant waived double jeopardy objections by entering a negotiated plea agreement covering both charges.


Holding

A defendant who enters a negotiated plea agreement waives double jeopardy objections to concurrent sentences for related offenses, and a trial court's corrective order filed beyond the sixty-day period under Rule 3.800(b)(2) is void for lack of jurisdiction.


Headnotes

[1] A defendant who enters a negotiated plea agreement waives double jeopardy objections to concurrent sentences for related offenses included in that plea.

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Facts & Procedural History

Morris Dasher, III was convicted and sentenced for both grand theft and dealing in the same stolen property. He entered a negotiated plea on both char…

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Opinion of the Court
ORFINGER, J.

ORFINGER, J.

In this Anders1 appeal, a sentencing issue has been raised by appellate counsel. Before the initial brief was filed, appellate counsel filed a timely motion to correct sentence pursuant to Florida Rule of Criminal Procedure 3.800(b)(2), claiming that it was a double jeopardy violation for Morris Dasher, III, to be convicted and sentenced for both grand theft and dealing in the same stolen property. Within the sixty-day period permitted by the rule, the trial court conducted a hearing and ruled from the bench that Mr. Dasher was entitled to relief. However, the written order was filed beyond the sixty-day period, and as counsel correctly observes and the State concedes, this renders the order void. See Barger v. State, 923 So. 2d 597, 603 (Fla. 5th DCA 2006).

We vacate the trial judge’s order correcting Mr. Dasher’s sentence. In doing so, we observe that Mr. Dasher is not entitled to the relief sought under rule 3.800(b). When Mr. Dasher entered into a negotiated plea on both charges, he waived his double jeopardy objections to the sentences that were part of the plea agreement. See Novaton v. State, 634 So. 2d 607 (Fla.1994). The order on Mr. Dasher’s rule 3.800(b)(2) motion was entered without jurisdiction and must be stricken.

REVERSED AND REMANDED With Directions to Reinstate Original Sentence.

MONACO and EVANDER, JJ., concur. . Anders v. California, 386 U.S. 738, 87 S.Ct. 1396, 18 L.Ed.2d 493 (1967).


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