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498 So. 2d 553

498 So.2d 553

11 Fla.L.Weekly 2486

Docket No. 4-86-0423.

Nelson v. State

Ken NELSON a/k/a Kevin Lowery, Appellant, v. STATE of Florida, Appellee.

District Court of Appeal of Florida

Decided November 26, 1986.

Rehearing and Certification Denied December 31, 1986.

District Court of Appeal of Florida · decided 1986-11-26

Cited by 5 later decisions — most recently December 1989

5 state decisions

Key passage — most relied on by later courts

“One guideline scoresheet shall be utilized for each defendant covering all offenses pending before the court for sentencing.”

quoted by 1 later decision, including 519 So. 2d 1095 - Clark v. State

Relies on 476 So. 2d 754 - Gallagher v. State · Watson v. State · 343 So. 2d 599 - State v. Mangam

Good law ✅— No negative treatment on recordhow we know

Decided 1986-11-26

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¶1*554 Richard L. Jorandby, Public Defender, and Jeffrey L. Anderson, Asst. Public Defender, West Palm Beach, for appellant.

¶2Jim Smith, Atty. Gen., Tallahassee, and Joy B. Shearer, Asst. Atty. Gen., West Palm Beach, for appellee.

¶3STONE, Judge.

¶4Appellant was charged with violating his probation in two separate cases assigned to different judges in the same circuit. The sentencing and judgment were completed in the first case prior to the probation violation final hearing under review. We find no error in the court's use of a separate guidelines "scoresheet" in this later case, and in the sentencing of the defendant independent of, and consecutive to, his sentence in the earlier case.

¶5Rule 3.701(d)(1) of the Florida Rules of Criminal Procedure provides:

1. One guideline scoresheet shall be prepared for each defendant covering all offenses pending before the court for sentencing.

¶6In Gallagher v. State,476 So.2d 754 (Fla. 5th DCA 1985), the trial judge had refused to consolidate three cases for sentencing after guilty pleas had been entered in all three and the Fifth District Court of Appeal reversed. However, the defendant had earlier moved for consolidation after entry of one guilty plea, but before entry of the two remaining pleas. Stating that the trial court correctly denied this earlier motion, the court in Gallagher commented:

[N]either a guilty (or nolo contendere) plea nor a conviction had been obtained in the other cases and therefore they were not pending before any court for sentencing.

¶7476 So.2d at 755.

¶8A defendant is entitled to the benefits of a uniform scoresheet and contemporaneous concurrent sentencing only for those of his cases actually pending before a judge in that circuit for sentencing. The fact that another case is pending in which the defendant has entered a not guilty plea or denial, and is awaiting trial, or a final hearing, is insufficient to constitute another offense pending for sentencing.

¶9In addition, we find no error with respect to appellant's contentions that the trial court erred in considering the defendant's silence in the face of his invocation of a Fifth Amendment privilege. See State v. Mangam,343 So.2d 599 (Fla. 1977); Hudson v. State,489 So.2d 808 (Fla. 4th DCA 1986); Watson v. State,388 So.2d 15 (Fla. 4th DCA 1980).

¶10AFFIRMED.

¶11GLICKSTEIN and DELL, JJ., concur.

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