JOHN YURAL HUDSON
v.
STATE OF FLORIDA

Fla. 5th DCA | 2026-06-26
No. 2025-2422
Wallis, J., Jay, C.J., Lambert, J., Washington, Alicia R.
2026 FL 7970 Florida District Court of Appeal, Fifth District (2026)

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Holding

An appellate court may correct scrivener's errors in a judgment and sentence during Anders review, including errors that misstate whether a defendant was convicted by jury or by plea.


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Opinion of the Court

FIFTH DISTRICT COURT OF APPEAL

STATE OF FLORIDA

Case No. 5D2025-2422 LT Case No. 2023-CF-000373

JOHN YURAL HUDSON, Appellant,

v.

STATE OF FLORIDA, Appellee.

On appeal from the Circuit Court for Putnam County. Alicia R. Washington, Judge.

Matthew J. Metz, Public Defender, and Teresa Sutton, Assistant Public Defender, Daytona Beach, for Appellant.

James Uthmeier, Attorney General, Tallahassee, and Roberts J. Bradford, Jr., Assistant Attorney General, Daytona Beach, for Appellee.

June 26, 2026

WALLIS, J.

In this Anders¹ appeal, we affirm the judgment and sentence imposed following a jury trial but remand for the trial court to correct the written judgment and sentence to reflect that the Appellant was convicted at trial rather than by entering a plea.² See Williams v. State, 422 So. 3d 1155, 1164 (Fla. 5th DCA 2025) (explaining that an appellate court may correct scrivener's errors upon Anders review); Henry v. State, 273 So. 3d 1150 (Fla. 5th DCA 2019) (remanding, upon Anders review, to correct a scrivener's error in the judgment and sentence incorrectly stating that the defendant entered a plea where the defendant was actually convicted by jury).

AFFIRMED; REMANDED for correction of scrivener's error.

JAY, C.J., and LAMBERT, J., concur.


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