Wardlaw v. State
Decision Date | 11 December 2002 |
Docket Number | No. 2D01-169.,2D01-169. |
Citation | 832 So.2d 258 |
Parties | Brian Lester WARDLAW, Appellant, v. STATE of Florida, Appellee. |
Court | Florida District Court of Appeals |
James Marion Moorman, Public Defender, and Cynthia J. Dodge, Assistant Public Defender, Bartow, for Appellant.
Richard E. Doran, Attorney General, Tallahassee, and Ann Pfeiffer Howe, Assistant Attorney General, Tampa, for Appellee.
Following the imposition of a thirty-year prison sentence for a violation of probation for attempted capital sexual battery, Brian Lester Wardlaw contends that, because he did not agree to a departure sentence at his original sentencing, the court improperly imposed an improper upward departure. Based upon Poore v. State, 531 So.2d 161 (Fla.1988); Lawrence v. State, 682 So.2d 582 (Fla. 5th DCA 1996); and Jenigen v. State, 801 So.2d 156 (Fla. 2d DCA 2001), we agree and reverse.
After entering into a plea agreement Mr. Wardlaw was originally sentenced to thirty years' imprisonment to be suspended after service of seven years. The balance of twenty-three years was to be served on probation. In 2000, Mr. Wardlaw admitted violating probation and was sentenced to thirty years' imprisonment with credit for the time he had previously served. He later filed a motion to correct the sentence and argued that, because his original sentence was a true split sentence, the trial court could not sentence him in excess of the applicable guidelines. The trial court denied the motion on the basis that the sentence was legal because it flowed from a negotiated plea. We apply the de novo standard of review to this issue of law. Demps v. State, 761 So.2d 302 (Fla.2000).
Id. at 165 (emphasis in original).
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