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744 So. 2d 1130

Docket No. 98-03714.

Corbitt v. State

Jeffrey L. CORBITT, Appellant, v. STATE of Florida, Appellee.

District Court of Appeal of Florida

Decided October 22, 1999.

District Court of Appeal of Florida · decided 1999-10-22

Cited by 13 later decisions — most recently March 2018

13 state decisions

Relies on Shelton v. State

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Decided 1999-10-22

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¶1Robert W. Attridge, Jr., New Port Richey, for Appellant.

¶2Robert A. Butterworth, Attorney General, Tallahassee, and Stephen D. Ake, Assistant Attorney General, Tampa, for Appellee.

¶3PER CURIAM.

¶4Jeffrey L. Corbitt appeals the final judgment after a jury found him guilty of seven charges. We affirm, but remand this case to the trial court to enter a written order of competency.

¶5Corbitt correctly argues that when a defendant is adjudged incompetent and committed to a state hospital, and then subsequently is found competent, the trial court must enter a written order finding the defendant competent. See Fla. R.Crim. P. 3.212(c)7. However, as noted by this court in Marshall v. State,351 So.2d 88, 88 (Fla. 2d DCA 1977), where the trial court has entered an oral finding that the defendant is competent, but no written order of competency has been entered, the proper remedy is to affirm the judgment and to remand the case to the trial court for entry of a nunc pro tunc order finding the defendant competent to stand trial.

¶6We affirm the final judgment, but remand this case to the trial court to enter a nunc pro tunc order finding Corbitt competent to stand trial.

¶7CAMPBELL, A.C.J., and PARKER and GREEN, JJ., Concur.

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