ANGEL MONTERO, PETITIONER,
v.
STATE OF FLORIDA, RESPONDENT
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The Florida Supreme Court reviewed a Fourth District Court of Appeal decision in a sentencing case involving a prison-releasee reoffender enhancement. The Court approved the Fourth District's ultimate result but disapproved its legal reasoning, clarifying that business-records certifications properly authenticate crime and time reports used in sentencing.
The Court approved the Fourth District's sentencing result but disapproved its legal reasoning. The Court held that a business-records certification is a permissible means of authenticating an attached Crime and Time Report for sentencing purposes, consistent with Florida's evidence rules and prior precedent.
[1] A business records certification can be used to authenticate an attached Crime and Time Report for sentencing purposes.
[2] A Crime and Time Report, when properly authenticated by a business records certification, may be admitted and considered by a trial court during sentencing.
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Join FLexlaw to unlock all legal intelligence“approve the ultimate result reached by the Fourth District Court of Appeal below, but disapprove its reliance upon the rule expressed in Yisrael v. State, 938 So.2d 546 (Fla. 4th DCA 2006), because the business-records certification provided in this case was used as a permissible means of authenticating an attached Crime and Time Report”
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Join FLexlaw to unlock all legal intelligenceMontero was sentenced as a prison-releasee reoffender under Florida Statute § 775.082(9)(a). The State used a Department of Corrections business-recor…
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We have for review Montero v. State, 947 So.2d 634 (Fla. 4th DCA 2007), in which the Fourth District Court of Appeal relied upon its decision in Yisrael v. State, 938 So.2d 546 (Fla. 4th DCA 2006) (en banc), disapproved in part, 993 So.2d 952 (Fla.2008), and certified conflict with the First District Court of Appeal’s decision in Gray v. State, 910 So.2d 867 (Fla. 1st DCA 2005). We have jurisdiction. See art. V, § 3(b)(4), Fla. Const.
We stayed proceedings in this case pending our disposition of Yisrael, in which we: (1) approved the decision of the First District in Gray, and (2) disapproved the reasoning and rule of law articulated by the Fourth District in its underlying decision, but ultimately approved the result reached by that court on other grounds. See Yisrael v. State, 993 So.2d 952, 960-61 (Fla.2008). We subsequently issued an order directing the State to show cause why we should not exercise jurisdiction, summarily quash the decision under review, and remand for reconsideration in light of our decision in Yisrael. The State has now supplied this Court with a Department of Corrections business-records certification contained within the appellate record, which was used during sentencing to authenticate an attached “Crime and Time Report.” See Yisrael, 993 So.2d at 960-61 (approving this authentication method); see also §§ 90.803(6), 90.902(11), Fla. Stat (2005). Further, the State has supplied a transcript of petitioner Monte-ro’s sentencing hearing, which confirms that this combined record was properly admitted and considered by the trial court in sentencing Montero as a prison-releasee reoffender. See § 775.082(9)(a), Fla. Stat. (2003).
Accordingly, we grant the petition for review and, as we did in Yisrael, approve the ultimate result reached by the Fourth District Court of Appeal below, but disapprove its reliance upon the rule expressed in Yisrael v. State, 938 So.2d 546 (Fla. 4th DCA 2006), because the business-records certification provided in this case was used as a permissible means of authenticating an attached Crime and Time Report See Yisrael, 993 So.2d at 960-61; see also Smith v. State, 990 So.2d 1162, 1164-65 (Fla. 3d DCA 2008); Parker v. State, 973 So.2d 1167, 1168-69 (Fla. 1st DCA 2007), review denied, No. SC07-1847 (Fla. Feb. 19, 2009).
It is so ordered.
QUINCE, C.J., and PARIENTE, LEWIS, CANADY, POLSTON, and LABARGA, JJ., concur.
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Authorities Cited
- Yisrael v. State, 993 So. 2d 952 (Fla. 2008)
- Mitchell v. State, 938 So. 2d 546 (Fla. 4th DCA 2006)
- Gray v. State, 910 So. 2d 867 (Fla. 1st DCA 2005)
- Lenorris Parker v. State, 973 So. 2d 1167 (Fla. 1st DCA 2007)
- Datoral Smith v. State, 990 So. 2d 1162 (Fla. 3d DCA 2008)
- Montero v. State, 947 So. 2d 634 (Fla. 4th DCA 2007)