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484 So. 2d 612

Docket No. 84-2602.

Mestas v. State

Kimberly M. MESTAS, Appellant, v. STATE of Florida, Appellee.

District Court of Appeal of Florida

Decided January 31, 1986.

District Court of Appeal of Florida · decided 1986-03-14

Cited by 6 later decisions — most recently June 1987

6 state decisions

Relies on 478 So. 2d 1054 - State v. Jackson · 478 So. 2d 351 - State v. Schmidt · 461 So. 2d 1003 - Davis v. State

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Decided 1986-03-14

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On Motion for Rehearing March 14, 1986.

¶1J. Marion Moorman, Public Defender, Bartow, and L.S. Alperstein, Asst. Public Defender, Tampa, for appellant.

¶2Jim Smith, Atty. Gen., Tallahassee, and Theda James Davis, Asst. Atty. Gen., Tampa, for appellee.

¶3SCHEB, Acting Chief Judge.

¶4Defendant Kimberly Mestas appeals an order withholding adjudication and placing her on probation for grand theft. She contends that the portion of the order requiring her to serve two years community control as a condition of probation is improper and should be stricken. We agree.

¶5Defendant pled guilty to second degree grand theft. The trial court accepted her plea after finding that it was voluntary and there was a sufficient factual basis for it. The court withheld adjudication. Under her sentencing guidelines scoresheet, defendant received a total of thirteen points which translated into a recommendation of *613 any non-state prison sanction. Fla.R. Crim.P. 3.988(f). At the sentencing hearing, the court placed her on probation for five years with the condition that the first two years be served under community control.

¶6By requiring defendant to serve two years community control, the trial court effectively imposed a sentence in the next higher cell under the guidelines, which recommends a sanction of community control or twelve to thirty months' incarceration. See rule 3.988(f). Thus, this sentence was a departure from the recommended range of any non-state prison sanction. Consequently, the court erred in failing to provide written reasons for this departure. Fla.R.Crim.P. 3.701(d)(11); State v. Boynton,478 So.2d 351 (Fla. 1985); State v. Jackson,478 So.2d 1054 (Fla. 1985).

¶7Accordingly, we affirm the defendant's placement on probation but remand to the trial court to strike the condition of probation which requires her to serve two years community control.

¶8LEHAN and FRANK, JJ., concur.

¶9

ON MOTION FOR REHEARING

¶10PER CURIAM.

¶11In a motion for rehearing, the state for the first time cites to Davis v. State,461 So.2d 1003 (Fla. 1st DCA 1984) and Louzon v. State,460 So.2d 551 (Fla. 5th DCA 1984). In these two cases our sister courts have held that a trial court may impose community control as a sanction under the sentencing guidelines category of any nonstate prison sanction.

¶12We deny the state's motion for rehearing but grant its request that we certify our decision conflicts with these decisions of the First and Fifth District Courts of Appeal.

¶13SCHEB, A.C.J., and LEHAN and FRANK, JJ., concur.

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