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993 So. 2d 575

Docket No. 3D08-2146.

Rodriguez v. State

Javier RODRIGUEZ, Petitioner, v. The STATE of Florida, Respondent.

District Court of Appeal of Florida

Decided October 22, 2008.

Rehearing Denied November 19, 2008.

District Court of Appeal of Florida · decided 2008-10-22

Decided 2008-10-22

¶1Javier Rodriguez, in proper person.

¶2Bill McCollum, Attorney General, and Richard L. Polin, Assistant Attorney General, for respondent.

¶3Before CORTIÑAS and SALTER, JJ., and SCHWARTZ, Senior Judge.

¶4PER CURIAM.

¶5Javier Rodriguez petitions this Court for a writ of mandamus directing the trial court to submit a sentencing order to the Department of Corrections for circuit court case number 01-13752. We deny the petition because no order amending Rodriguez's sentence from consecutive to concurrent terms exists for that case.

¶6In 2004, Rodriguez entered into a plea agreement after admitting he violated his community control. That agreement, freely entered into by Rodriguez, provided that he could be sentenced in absentia to fifteen years in prison for case number 01-13752 and a related case if he failed to appear at a later sentencing hearing. Rodriguez was then released on his own recognizance to assist detectives in an ongoing investigation.

¶7After Rodriguez failed to appear at his May 10, 2005, sentencing hearing, the court sentenced him in absentia to two *576 consecutive five-year prison terms in case number 01-13752. Contrary to Rodriguez's current claims, that May 10 sentencing order was never amended. Rather, a correction was made in June 2005 to Rodriguez's adjudication order. The only amendment made in Rodriguez's sentencing orders occurred in case number 01-13753, which provides that his sentences in that case run concurrent to his sentences in 01-13752.

¶8Petition denied.

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