ANTHONY GIOVANI ORELLANA
v.
STATE OF FLORIDA
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A defendant sentenced as a youthful offender appealed the revocation of his community control and imposition of a six-year prison sentence, arguing the successor judge failed to recognize the youthful offender status and sentencing limitations, and failed to award proper jail credit. The court affirmed the sentence but remanded for correction of jail time credit.
The court affirmed the six-year prison sentence, finding the successor judge was aware of and properly applied the Youthful Offender Act's sentencing limitations. The court remanded for the circuit court to correct the jail time credit from the amount originally denied to 103 days, as the defendant did not waive this entitlement.
[1] A judge sentencing a youthful offender for violations of community control exercises proper discretion by imposing imprisonment within the six-year maximum limitation of…
[2] Jail time credit is not waived merely because the defendant failed to object before sentencing or the judge did not explicitly address it, and the defendant remains entit…
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The defendant was originally sentenced as a youthful offender to community control by a predecessor judge. He later committed non-criminal violations …
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GERBER, J.
The defendant, whom a predecessor judge had sentenced as a youthful offender to community control and who later committed non-criminal violations of that community control, appeals from the successor judge’s revocation of his community control and imposition of a six-year prison sentence. The defendant argues the successor judge: (1) failed to recognize during the sentencing hearing on the community control violations that the defendant had originally been sentenced as a youthful offender and had committed only non-criminal violations, thereby limiting the successor judge’s sentencing discretion to a maximum six-year prison sentence; and (2) failed to award the defendant with a proper jail credit amount.
On the first argument, we affirm. Contrary to the defendant’s argument, the record does not show the successor judge believed he had no discretion but to sentence the defendant according to the fifteen-year maximum for each second-degree felony offense or that he had a desire to sentence the defendant to an incarcerative period less than the six years’ imprisonment imposed. Further, the successor judge, in his order denying the defendant’s motion to correct sentencing error, insisted he was aware of his sentencing discretion under the Youthful Offender Act’s six-year incarceration limitation.
On the second argument, the state properly concedes the successor judge erred in denying the defendant’s motion to correct sentence to award the correct amount of jail time credit of 82 days to 103 days, because the record does not show the defendant waived his entitlement to the correct amount of jail time credit.
Based on the foregoing, we affirm the defendant’s sentence but remand for the circuit court to amend the judgment by awarding the defendant with the corrected jail credit of 103 days. The defendant need not be present for this ministerial correction.
Sentence affirmed; remanded for correction of jail credit. FORST and KUNTZ, JJ., concur. * * * Not final until disposition of timely filed motion for rehearing.