Blaxton v. State’s Empirical Analysis

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1. “Mr. Blaxton was not lawfully in jail on February 11, 2004. Unfortunately, this court did not so hold until about one month after Mr. Blaxton stole the other prisoner’s clothes and attempted to escape. See Blaxton v. State, 868 So.2d 620 (Fla. 2d DCA 2004).' The factual circumstances that cause his stay in the Hillsborough County jail to be unlawful are somewhat complex and probably involve a legislative oversight. See Lamore v. State, 86 So.3d 546 (Fla. 2d DCA 2012). Suffice it to say that Mr. Blaxton received youthful offender sentences in two other cases in 2000 for armed robberies that he committed prior to July 1, 2006, when he was fourteen and sixteen years old. Those sentences included boot camp. As a result, thereafter he could not be lawfully sentenced to more than 364 days’ incarceration on those offenses. See id.; Bloodworth v. State, 769 So.2d 1117, 1118 (Fla. 2d DCA 2000). But on January 7, 2003, when modifying his sentences in those two cases, the circuit court imposed concurrent sentences of 44 months’ probation with a special residency condition of 364 days in county jail. See Blaxton, 868 So.2d at 620 . By February 11, 2004, Mr. Blaxton had been released from his lawful jail sentences in these cases and was serving the illegal terms of probation. It was an alleged violation of these illegal terms of probation that caused Mr. Blaxton to be in jail on the day he attempted to escape.”

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