State v. Jones’s Empirical Analysis

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2 state decisions

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1. “In October 1991, defendant was before the court for sentencing on charges relating to worthless checks. One set of possible charges from the events that had led to her arrest was being held by the State in order to have the FBI do a handwriting analysis. But for the state's unreadiness to proceed on them, the October 1991 sentencing would have included these charges; and the additional counts would have resulted in a contemporaneous sentence with the 5-year prison sentence she was given then. Several months later, in May 1992 to be exact, the state proceeded on the additional charges (grand theft and obtaining property by worthless check), and the defendant agreed to plead no contest. As it had happened by then, however, defendant had already been released from state prison on the 5-years incarceration and was serving the balance of her sentence on "controlled release." Her guidelines scoresheet for these additional charges now, of course, reflected the 1991 convictions and showed a permitted sentence range of 9-22 years. The trial judge expressly found that if these additional charges had been processed in the normal course of events, they would also have been disposed of at the October 1991 plea and sentencing, and any sentence he would then have imposed would have been concurrent with the 5-year sentence given. Accordingly, he sentenced her to 1-year probation to run concurrent with her controlled release. Unfortunately, even though all of this appears without contradictio”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 639 So. 2d 28 - Jones v. State

2. “DOES Pope v. State, 561 So.2d 554 (Fla. 1990), REQUIRE BELOW GUIDELINES DEPARTURE SENTENCES WITHOUT CONTEMPORANEOUS WRITTEN REASONS, WHERE THE DEFENDANT IS WITHOUT FAULT IN THE SENTENCING PROCESS, TO BE REVERSED FOR RESENTENCING WITHIN THE GUIDELINES?”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 639 So. 2d 28 - Jones v. State

3. “[W]hen an appellate court reverses a departure sentence because there were no written reasons, the court must remand for resentencing with no possibility of departure from the guidelines.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 639 So. 2d 28 - Jones v. State