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546 So. 2d 409

Docket No. 73701.

Dewberry v. State

William DEWBERRY, Petitioner, v. STATE of Florida, Respondent.

Supreme Court of Florida

Decided July 20, 1989.

Supreme Court of Florida · decided 1989-07-20

Cited by 19 later decisions — most recently April 1996

18 state decisions

Key passage — most relied on by later courts

“The one-cell bump-up provided for in the guidelines is the only allowable increase.”

quoted by 1 later decision, including 560 So. 2d 298 - Sanders v. State

Relies on 545 So. 2d 838 - Lambert v. State · 537 So. 2d 669 - Dewberry v. State

Good law ✅— No negative treatment on recordhow we know

Decided 1989-07-20

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¶1Michael E. Allen, Public Defender, and P. Douglas Brinkmeyer, Deputy Public Defender, Second Judicial Circuit, Tallahassee, for petitioner.

¶2Robert A. Butterworth, Atty. Gen., and Bradley R. Bischoff, Asst. Atty. Gen., Tallahassee, for respondent.

¶3PER CURIAM.

¶4We have for review Dewberry v. State,537 So.2d 669 (Fla. 1st DCA 1989), which conflicts with Lambert v. State,545 So.2d 838 (Fla. 1989). We have jurisdiction. Art. V, § 3(b)(3), Fla. Const. We quash the decision of the district court.

¶5Dewberry was adjudicated guilty of possession of cocaine and placed on five years' probation. Following his arrest (without conviction) for sexual battery, the court revoked his probation and, departing from the guidelines range of twelve to thirty months, sentenced him to five years' imprisonment for the original offense based on his probation violation. The district court affirmed, but certified the following question:

WHERE A TRIAL JUDGE FINDS THAT THE UNDERLYING REASONS FOR VIOLATION OF COMMUNITY CONTROL OR PROBATION CONSTITUTE MORE THAN A MINOR INFRACTION AND ARE SUFFICIENTLY EGREGIOUS, MAY HE DEPART FROM THE PRESUMPTIVE GUIDELINES RANGE AND IMPOSE AN APPROPRIATE SENTENCE WITHIN THE STATUTORY LIMIT EVEN THOUGH THE DEFENDANT HAS NOT BEEN "CONVICTED" OF THE CRIMES WHICH THE TRIAL JUDGE CONCLUDED CONSTITUTED A VIOLATION OF HIS COMMUNITY CONTROL OR PROBATION?

¶6We have answered this question in the negative in Lambert. The one-cell bump-up provided for in the guidelines is the only allowable increase. See Fla.R.Crim.P. 3.701(d)(14).

¶7Accordingly, we quash the decision of the district court and remand for resentencing within the guidelines.

¶8It is so ordered.

¶9EHRLICH, C.J., and McDONALD, SHAW, BARKETT, GRIMES and KOGAN, JJ., concur.

¶10OVERTON, J., dissents.

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