JOHN CALVIN GERMAN
v.
STATE OF FLORIDA
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John Calvin German appealed a circuit court order that vacated an earlier order granting him resentencing on his conviction for home invasion robbery and attempted sexual battery. The appellate court reversed, holding that the circuit court lacked jurisdiction to vacate the resentencing order after it had become final and non-appealable.
The circuit court lacked jurisdiction to vacate the resentencing order because it had become final and non-appealable when neither party appealed or moved for rehearing within the required timeframe. The appellate court reversed and remanded for reinstatement of the original resentencing order.
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PER CURIAM.
John Calvin German appeals a circuit court order that denied his motion to correct illegal sentence and vacated an earlier order granting resentencing. We reverse and remand for reinstatement of the earlier order because the circuit court lacked jurisdiction to vacate it.
Appellant was convicted of home invasion robbery with a firearm and attempted sexual battery with threat of great force. The trial court sentenced him in 2008 to fifty years in prison for the robbery with a ten-year mandatory minimum and fifteen years for the attempted sexual battery. This court affirmed in German v. State, 27 So. 3d 130, 131 (Fla. 4th DCA 2010). In a rule 3.800(a) motion, appellant challenged his fifty-year sentence under Graham v. Florida, 560 U.S. 48 (2010). The state conceded appellant was entitled to resentencing under the provisions of chapter 2014-220, Laws of Florida. The circuit court granted appellant’s motion, ordering that he was entitled to a resentencing hearing. The state did not appeal.
Later, this court issued Hart v. State, 246 So. 3d 417, 417 (Fla. 4th DCA 2018), review granted, SC18-967, 2018 WL 4614150 (Fla. Sept. 7, 2018), and case dismissed, SC18-967, 2018 WL 6181698 (Fla. Nov. 27, 2018), holding that a juvenile defendant’s thirty-year sentence for non-homicide offenses did not violate the Eighth Amendment or Graham. This led the state to file in the circuit court a supplemental response and motion to strike or stay the resentencing hearing. The circuit court agreed with the state, vacated its earlier order granting resentencing, and denied the motion to correct illegal sentence.
The order granting resentencing became final and non-appealable when neither party moved for rehearing or appealed. See Jones v. State, 44 Fla. L. Weekly D2349 (Fla. 4th DCA Sept. 18, 2019); Simmons v. State, 274 So. 3d 468, 470-71 (Fla. 1st DCA 2019). After that, the circuit court lacked jurisdiction to vacate that order. We reverse the order on appeal and remand for the circuit court to reinstate its original order granting resentencing. The trial court should resentence appellant to a lawful sentence on remand, based on the controlling law at the time of resentencing. See Jones, 44 Fla. L. Weekly D2349. We decline to address the substantive challenges appellant raises as to the current sentencing law. Reversed and remanded with instructions. CIKLIN, FORST and KUNTZ, JJ., concur. * * * Not final until disposition of timely filed motion for rehearing.
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German v. State, 44 Fla. L. Weekly D2349 (Fla. 4th DCA 2019)…he circuit court granted appellant’s motion, ordering that he was entitled to a resentencing hearing. The state did not appeal. 2 Later, this court issued Hart v. State, 246 So. 3d 417, 417 (Fla. 4th DCA 2018), review granted, SC18-967, 2018 WL 4614150 (Fla. Sept. 7, 2018), and case dismissed, SC18-967, 2018 WL 6181698 (Fla. Nov. 27, 2018), holding that a juvenile defendant’s thirty-year sentence for non-homicide offenses did not violate the Eighth Amendment or Graham. This led the state to f…
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Francois v. State, 271 So. 3d 1130 (Fla. 3d DCA 2019)…me Court has not yet applied Graham to a thirty- year or shorter sentence . . . [N]o decision from the Supreme Court of the United 2 States has expanded Graham so broadly that it would encompass a 30-year sentence.” ), rev. granted, No. SC18-967, 2018 WL 4614150 (Fla. Sept. 7, 2018)1; see also Pedroza v. State, 244 So. 3d 1128 (Fla. 4th DCA 2018) (affirming a forty- year sentence following a second degree murder conviction imposed when Pedroza was a juvenile), rev. granted, No. SC 18-964, 2018 WL 6433136…
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- Hart v. State, 246 So. 3d 417 (Fla. 4th DCA 2018)
- Barnes v. State (Fla. 1st DCA 2019)
- German v. State, 27 So. 3d 130 (Fla. 4th DCA 2010)
- German v. State, 44 Fla. L. Weekly D2349 (Fla. 4th DCA 2019)