JESSE HARRISON LUSK
v.
STATE OF FLORIDA

Fla. 1st DCA | 2020-03-26
No. 18-3379
Wells, J., Osterhaus, J., Kelsey, J., Nordby, J.
Florida District Court of Appeal, First District (2020)

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Holding

An orally pronounced sentence controls when there is a discrepancy between the oral sentence and the written sentence, and correction of the written sentence to conform to the oral sentence is a ministerial act.


Headnotes

[1] When a discrepancy exists between an orally pronounced sentence and a written sentence, the oral sentence controls, and correction of the written sentence to conform to t…

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Key Quotes

“written sentences are usually just a record of the actual sentence required to be pronounced in open court”

The court explained why oral sentences control over written sentences in cases of discrepancy.

Facts & Procedural History

Jesse Harrison Lusk appealed from a judgment entered by the Circuit Court for Walton County. The appeal involved a discrepancy between an orally prono…

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Opinion of the Court
Nordby

FIRST DISTRICT COURT OF APPEAL

STATE OF FLORIDA

_____________________________

No. 1D18-3379 _____________________________

JESSE HARRISON LUSK,

Appellant,

v.

STATE OF FLORIDA,

Appellee. _____________________________

On appeal from the Circuit Court for Walton County. Kelvin C. Wells, Judge.

March 26, 2020

PER CURIAM.

AFFIRMED. See State v. Akins, 69 So. 3d 261, 269, 271 (Fla. 2011) (concluding that an orally pronounced sentence controls when there is a discrepancy between the oral sentence and written sentence as “written sentences are usually just a record of the actual sentence required to be pronounced in open court”) (quoting Ashley v. State, 850 So. 2d 1265, 1268 (Fla. 2003)); see also Parker v. State, 276 So. 3d 108, 109 (Fla. 1st DCA 2019) (describing the correction of a written sentence to conform to the oral sentence to be “merely a ministerial act”) (quoting Frost v. State, 769 So. 2d 443, 444 (Fla. 1st DCA 2000)). OSTERHAUS, KELSEY, and NORDBY, JJ., concur.

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Not final until disposition of any timely and authorized motion under Fla. R. App. P. 9.330 or 9.331. _____________________________

Michael Ufferman of Michael Ufferman Law Firm, P.A., Tallahassee, for Appellant.

Ashley Moody, Attorney General, and Sharon S. Traxler, Assistant Attorney General, Tallahassee, for Appellee.


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