KENNETH L. JACKSON
v.
STATE

Fla. 5th DCA | 2018-05-28
No. 5D17-3990
Erdmann, Crawford
43 Fla. L. Weekly D1015 Florida District Court of Appeal, Fifth District (2018) Positive Treatment
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Holding

When a juvenile defendant's sentence is modified to allow for a review hearing under Florida law, a full resentencing hearing must also be conducted.


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[1] A trial court errs by modifying a juvenile defendant's sentence to allow for a review hearing without also holding a resentencing hearing.

[2] A defendant sentenced for offenses committed as a juvenile is entitled to a full resentencing hearing when the sentence is modified to allow for a juvenile sentence revie…

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Kenneth Jackson, age sixteen at the time of offenses, pleaded open to burglary of a conveyance while armed, attempted robbery with a firearm, and poss…

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Opinion of the Court

IN THE DISTRICT COURT OF APPEAL OF THE STATE OF FLORIDA

FIFTH DISTRICT NOT FINAL UNTIL TIME EXPIRES TO FILE MOTION FOR REHEARING AND DISPOSITION THEREOF IF FILED KENNETH LYDELL JACKSON, Appellant,

v. Case No. 5D17-3990 STATE OF FLORIDA, Appellee. ________________________________/ Opinion filed June 1, 2018 Appeal from the Circuit Court for Marion County, Edward L. Scott, Judge.

James S. Purdy, Public Defender, and Brittany N. O'Neil, Assistant Public Defender, Daytona Beach, for Appellant.

Pamela Jo Bondi, Attorney General, Tallahassee, and Pamela J. Koller, Assistant Attorney General, Daytona Beach, for Appellee.

PER CURIAM. Kenneth Lydell Jackson appeals the partial denial of his motion to correct sentence filed under Florida Rule of Criminal Procedure 3.800(a). Jackson, who was sixteen years old at the time of his offenses, entered open pleas to burglary of a conveyance while armed (count I), attempted robbery with a firearm (count II), and possession of a firearm by a delinquent (count III). He was sentenced to concurrent twenty-five year terms of prison on counts I and II. On count III, he received a concurrent fifteen-year prison sentence. In his rule 3.800(a) motion, Jackson argued that he was entitled to a full resentencing hearing and a judicial review of his sentence. The trial court granted

Jackson’s motion, in part, amending the sentencing documents to allow for a juvenile sentence review hearing, but denying a new resentencing hearing.

This Court has previously held that it is error to modify a juvenile defendant’s sentence to allow for a review hearing without also holding a resentencing hearing under sections 775.082, 921.1401 and 921.1402, Florida Statutes. Ruiz v. State, 43 Fla. L.

Weekly D1015 (Fla. 5th DCA May 11, 2018); Katwaroo v. State, 237 So. 3d 446 (Fla. 5th

DCA 2018); Davis v. State, 230 So. 3d 487 (Fla. 5th DCA 2017). Jackson’s situation is identical. Accordingly, we affirm the trial court’s order amending the sentencing documents to provide for a review hearing, but reverse and remand to allow the court to conduct a full resentencing hearing.

AFFIRMED in part; REVERSED in part; and REMANDED

ORFINGER and TORPY, JJ., concur. BERGER, J., concurring specially.

BERGER, J., concurring specially. 5D17-3990

I concur based on this Court’s decisions in Ruiz v. State, 43 Fla. L. Weekly D1015 (Fla. 5th DCA May 4, 2018), Katwaroo v. State, 237 So. 3d 446 (Fla. 5th DCA 2018), and

Davis v. State, 230 So. 3d 487, 488 (Fla. 5th DCA 2017). However, were I writing on a clean slate, I would affirm. In my view, Jackson is not entitled to resentencing under

Graham v. Florida, 560 U.S. 48 (2010), or Miller v. Alabama, 567 U.S. 460 (2012),

because his sentences are not de facto life sentences. See, e.g., Davis v. State, 214 So. 3d 799, 799-800 (Fla. 1st DCA 2017).


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