JOHN SCHAUFLER
v.
STATE OF FLORIDA
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John Schaufler appealed the revocation of his probation. The court affirmed the revocation and sentences but identified an error in the trial court's entry of a duplicative written judgment of guilt that should be vacated.
The trial court properly revoked Schaufler's probation and imposed sentences. However, the second written judgment adjudicating Schaufler guilty of the original offenses was entered in error and must be vacated because duplicative adjudications of guilt after revocation of probation are unauthorized and superfluous.
[1] A trial court may not enter a written judgment adjudicating a defendant guilty of the original offenses when revoking probation if the defendant was already adjudicated g…
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Join FLexlaw to unlock all legal intelligenceSchaufler was originally adjudicated guilty of offenses and placed on probation in May 2005. His probation was revoked at a hearing in March 2017, at …
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Appeal from the Circuit Court for Polk County; James A. Yancey, Judge.
Howard L. Dimmig, II, Public Defender, and John C. Fisher, Assistant Public Defender, Bartow, for Appellant.
Pamela Jo Bondi, Attorney General, Tallahassee, for Appellee.
ROTHSTEIN-YOUAKIM, Judge.
We affirm the trial court's revocation of John Schaufler's probation and the sentences imposed upon revocation without further comment. We note, however, that although the trial court recognized at the March 2017 revocation hearing that it should not re-adjudicate Schaufler guilty of the original offenses because it had already adjudicated him guilty of those offenses in May 2005 when originally imposing probation, see Butler v. State, 195 So. 3d 1147, 1148 (Fla. 2d DCA 2016) ("Duplicative adjudications of guilt after revocation of probation or community control are superfluous, are unauthorized, and can cause undue confusion in future proceedings."), the record on appeal nevertheless includes a second written judgment adjudicating him guilty of the original offenses. This judgment, which was signed the same day as the revocation hearing and accompanies the written sentences imposed following revocation of his probation, was entered in error. See id. at 1148-49 ("[T]he circuit court only enters a judgment on a violation of probation in those instances when it withheld an adjudication of guilt, i.e., withheld judgment, at the time it originally imposed probation." (quoting Jackson v. State, 56 So. 3d 65, 67 (Fla. 2d DCA 2011) (Altenbernd, J., concurring))).
Accordingly, we affirm the revocation of Schaufler's probation and the ensuing sentences but remand for vacatur of the March 2017 written judgment adjudicating Schaufler guilty a second time.
Affirmed in part; remanded with instructions.
KELLY and SLEET, JJ., Concur.
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