RICHARD COLSON WHITE
v.
STATE OF FLORIDA
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A trial court lacks jurisdiction to reconsider and vacate an order granting resentencing based on Miller and Graham once that order becomes final and appealable, absent a timely motion for rehearing under the applicable rules.
[1] A trial court lacks jurisdiction to reconsider an order granting resentencing once that order becomes final and appealable, absent a timely motion for rehearing.
[2] A defendant is entitled to resentencing when a prior order granting resentencing has become final and was not timely appealed or subject to a timely motion for rehearing.
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DISTRICT COURT OF APPEAL OF THE STATE OF FLORIDA
FOURTH DISTRICT
RICHARD COLSON WHITE,
Appellant,
v.
STATE OF FLORIDA,
Appellee.
No. 4D18-3560
[December 4, 2019]
Appeal of order denying rule 3.850 motion from the Circuit Court for the Nineteenth Judicial Circuit, Okeechobee County; Michael Heisey, Judge; L.T. Case No. 471985CF000256B.
Carey Haughwout, Public Defender, and Paul Edward Petillo, Assistant Public Defender, West Palm Beach, for appellant.
Ashley Moody, Attorney General, Tallahassee, and Matthew Steven Ocksrider, Assistant Attorney General, West Palm Beach, for appellee.
PER CURIAM. Appellant Richard Colson White appeals an order denying his motion to vacate sentence based on Miller v. Alabama, 567 U.S. 460, 132 S. Ct. 2455, 183 L. Ed. 2d 407 (2012), and Graham v. Florida, 560 U.S. 48, 130 S. Ct. 2011, 176 L. Ed. 2d 825 (2010). We reverse and remand upon accepting the State’s concession that the issue is controlled by our decision in Jones v. State, 279 So. 3d 172 (Fla. 4th DCA 2019).
In Jones, the defendant moved for resentencing based on Miller and Graham. Jones, 279 So. 3d at 173. The trial court granted the motion and ordered resentencing. Significantly, the State did not seek rehearing or appeal. Before resentencing occurred, and after a change in the law, the State changed its position and objected to Jones’ resentencing. See Franklin v. State, 258 So. 3d 1239 (Fla. 2018); State v. Michel, 257 So. 3d 3 (Fla. 2018), cert. denied, ––– U.S. ––––, 139 S. Ct. 1401, 203 L. Ed. 2d 630 (2019). The circuit court agreed with the State and vacated the order granting resentencing. Jones, 279 So. 3d at 173.
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We reversed that order in Jones because the circuit court lacked jurisdiction to reconsider the earlier order granting resentencing. Id. at 174 (citing Simmons v. State, 274 So. 3d 468 (Fla. 1st DCA 2019) (holding that the trial court lacked jurisdiction to rescind an order granting resentencing once it became a final, appealable order, and neither party timely moved for rehearing of the order under Fla. R. Crim. P. 3.800(b)(1)(B)).
As in Jones, we reverse the order on appeal and remand with directions that the trial court reinstate the order granting Appellant’s rule 3.800(a) motion. The trial court should then resentence Appellant to a lawful sentence. Also, as in our opinion in Jones, we decline to address the substantive challenges Appellant raises concerning the current sentencing law.
Reversed and remanded with instructions. GROSS, FORST and KUNTZ, JJ., concur.
* * * Not final until disposition of timely filed motion for rehearing.
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