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777 So. 2d 1168

Docket No. 3D00-2947.

Vareia v. State

Tammy M. VAREIA, Appellant, v. The STATE of Florida, Appellee.

District Court of Appeal of Florida

Decided February 14, 2001.

District Court of Appeal of Florida · decided 2001-02-14

Cited by 7 later decisions — most recently December 2003

7 state decisions

Key passage — most relied on by later courts

“On remand, since appellant's sentence was the result of a negotiated plea [to a guidelines sentence], the State shall have the option of agreeing to a bottom of the guidelines sentence under the 1994 guidelines, or withdrawing from the plea bargain and taking appellant to trial.”

quoted by 1 later decision, including Latiif v. State

Relies on Heggs v. State · 771 So. 2d 1206 - Buckingham v. State · Spacco v. State

Good law ✅— No negative treatment on recordhow we know

Decided 2001-02-14

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¶1Tammy M. Vareia, in proper person.

¶2Robert A. Butterworth, Attorney General, and Roberta G. Mandel, Assistant Attorney General, for appellee.

¶3Before LEVY, GODERICH, and RAMIREZ, JJ.

¶4

ON MOTION FOR CLARIFICATION

¶5PER CURIAM.

¶6The State's Motion for Clarification is granted, the original opinion in this case, filed on December 20, 2000, is vacated, and the following opinion is substituted therefor.

¶7Vareia appeals the trial court's summary denial of her petition for postconviction relief in which she challenges her sentence under Heggs v. State,759 So.2d 620 (Fla. 2000). The State agrees with Vareia that the trial court's order should be reversed and remanded so that the trial court may determine whether Vareia entered a negotiated plea to an exact sentence or to an indefinite sentence pursuant to guidelines which were declared unconstitutional in Heggs. In the case of an exact sentence, Vareia would have no grounds to complain. If she pled to an indefinite sentence and the sentence exceeds the 1994 guidelines, Vareia's sentence should be vacated and her guidelines scoresheet recalculated. In *1169 the latter case, the State on remand shall have the option of agreeing to a guidelines sentence under the 1994 guidelines, or withdrawing from the plea bargain and taking Vareia to trial. See Buckingham v. State,771 So.2d 1206 (Fla. 2d DCA 2000); Gibson v. State,772 So.2d 35 (Fla. 2d DCA 2000); Spacco v. State,762 So.2d 597 (Fla. 5th DCA 2000).

¶8Reversed and remanded.

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