Woods v. State, 96-02024

Decision Date15 April 1998
Docket NumberNo. 96-02024,96-02024
Parties23 Fla. L. Weekly D977 Daniel WOODS, Appellant, v. STATE of Florida, Appellee.
CourtFlorida District Court of Appeals

James Marion Moorman, Public Defender and Tosha Cohen, Assistant Public Defender, Bartow, for Appellant.

Robert A. Butterworth, Attorney General, Tallahassee and Ronald Napolitano, Assistant Attorney General, Tampa, for Appellee.

FRANK, Acting Chief Judge.

Daniel Woods was charged with multiple sex crimes involving a male child. Ultimately, the state nolle prossed several of the criminal charges retaining one count of a lewd and lascivious act, one count of sexual battery and one count of attempted lewd and lascivious behavior. The criminal conduct came to light after Woods told the child's parents of its occurrence and the child confirmed the events. Woods insisted on pleading guilty.

Following the trial court's acceptance of Woods's plea, he was sentenced to ten years in prison followed by five years of probation on the two second degree felony counts. On the third degree count, the trial court sentenced him to a five-year concurrent sentence with no probation. Mandatory court costs and restitution for out-of-pocket expenses were orally ordered. Woods was to have no contact with children under seventeen until after completion of an outpatient sex offender program. After the program was completed, his unsupervised contact with children under the age of sixteen was subject to the permission of his probation officer.

We have considered and assessed each of the issues Woods has presented for our consideration. In sum, Woods cannot now successfully challenge the voluntariness of his plea in the circumstance where he failed to move before the trial court to withdraw it. See Robinson v. State, 373 So.2d 898 (Fla.1979). Moreover, it was not error to add forty victim injury points to his scoresheet for injury based upon fellatio. See Dickinson v. State, 693 So.2d 55 (Fla. 5th DCA 1997).

We do, however, find some of the probation conditions improper. The condition assessing $25 per month for the cost of supervision must be condemned because the order does not reveal the statutory authority for that obligation. See Reyes v. State, 655 So.2d 111 (Fla. 2d DCA 1995). The restitution aspect of the order must also be reversed and remanded with instructions to the trial court to determine the amount of restitution. See Bryant v. State, 600 So.2d 547 (Fla. 2d DCA 1992). The condition prohibiting Woods from any contact with children has been held to be too broad; it may result in an unintentional violation. See Rowles v. State, 682 So.2d 1184 (Fla. 5th DCA 1996); Graham v....

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    • United States
    • Florida District Court of Appeals
    • October 14, 1998
    ...the trial court's ruling, both this court and the Fifth District held that fellatio could be scored as penetration. See Woods v. State, 711 So.2d 1182 (Fla. 2d DCA 1998); Dickinson v. State, 693 So.2d 55 (Fla. 5th DCA 1997) (Antoon, J., dissenting). Judge Antoon's dissent in Dickinson argue......

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