OMEGA ALLEN, APPELLANT,
v.
THE STATE OF FLORIDA, APPELLEE
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Omega Allen appealed his conviction and sentencing for drug offenses, challenging whether separate sentencing guidelines scoresheets were properly applied. The court affirmed, holding that when offenses are committed under different sentencing guidelines effective dates, separate scoresheets are statutorily required.
The court affirmed, holding that separate sentencing guidelines scoresheets were statutorily required because the offenses were committed in different years under different applicable guidelines. The statute allowing defendants to elect guidelines for offenses committed after January 1, 1994 had been deleted before the 1994 guidelines took effect, so Allen had no election right.
[1] A single sentencing guidelines scoresheet is generally required for all offenses pending sentencing, but statutory prohibitions may necessitate the use of separate scores…
[2] Felonies committed between October 1, 1983, and January 1, 1994, are subject to the 1983 sentencing guidelines as amended.
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Join FLexlaw to unlock all legal intelligence“ordinarily a single sentencing guidelines scoresheet must be utilized for all offenses pending before the trial court for sentencing, Fla.R.Crim.P. 3.701(d); a single such scoresheet, however, was statutorily prohibited in this case”
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Join FLexlaw to unlock all legal intelligenceAllen pleaded guilty to unlawful possession of cocaine (committed in 1993 in a probation violation case) and unlawful sale of cocaine (committed in 19…
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PER CURIAM.
This is an appeal by the defendant Omega Allen from an order revoking probation and judgments of conviction and sentences which were entered below upon a negotiated guilty plea for (1) unlawful possession of cocaine [in a violation of probation case; KW93-312-CF]; and (2) unlawful sale of cocaine [KW94-964-CF], a substantive offense committed while the defendant was on probation — for which the defendant was to receive a sentencing guidelines sentence. Contrary to the defendant’s point on appeal, the defendant did receive a proper guidelines sentence in accord with the negotiated plea, namely, (1) four and one-half years imprisonment for unlawful possession of cocaine in the violation of probation case, utilizing a 1993 sentencing guidelines scoresheet; and (2) a consecutive term of one year of community control, followed by two years of drug offender probation, for unlawful sale of cocaine in the substantive offense case, utilizing a 1994 sentencing guidelines scoresheet. We, accordingly, affirm.
We recognize that ordinarily a single sentencing guidelines scoresheet must be utilized for all offenses pending before the trial court for sentencing, Fla.R.Crim.P. 3.701(d); a single such scoresheet, however, was statutorily prohibited in this ease. The offense involved in the violation of probation case [KW93-312-CF] was a non-capital felony committed in 1993, and, accordingly, the 1983 guidelines, as amended, were applicable to this offense under Section 921.001(4)(b)(l), Florida Statutes (Supp.1994) (“The guidelines enacted effective October 1, 1983, apply to all felonies, except capital felonies, committed on or after October 1, 1983, and before January 1, 1994”); the guidelines score-sheet in effect in 1993 therefore had to be utilized for this offense. On the other hand, the offense involved in the substantive offense case [KW94-964-CF] was a non-capital felony committed in 1994, and, accordingly, the 1994 sentencing guidelines were applicable to this offense under Section 921.001(4)(b)(2), Florida Statutes (Supp.1994) (“The 1994 guidelines apply to sentencing for all felonies, except capital felonies, committed on or after January 1, 1994”); the guidelines scoresheet in effect in 1994, therefore, had to be utilized for this offense. Wood v. State, 655 So. 2d 212 (Fla. 5th DCA 1995); of. Doyle v. State, 644 So. 2d 1041 (Fla. 3d DCA 1994).
The defendant relies on Section 921.001(4)(b)(2), Florida Statutes (1993), which provides that a defendant has the option to elect whether to be sentenced under the 1983 or the 1994 sentencing guidelines for an offense committed on or after January 1, 1994; the defendant argues that he was never given the option to elect which such guidelines he should be sentenced under, and, accordingly, it was error to use a separate 1993 guidelines scoresheet for the substantive offense committed in 1993. We disagree because the statute on which the defendant relies was deleted in favor of the current statute on November 24, 1993, Ch. 93-417, § 1, at 223, Laws of Fla. (1993), before the 1994 guidelines went into effect on January 1, 1994.
Affirmed.
ON REHEARING
We deny the defendant’s motion for rehearing based on a holding that Doyle v. State, 644 So. 2d 1041 (Fla. 3d DCA 1994) is not in conflict with our decision in the instant case. Aside from the fact that the Doyle opinion is silent as to when the offenses involved in that case were committed, it is clear, in any event, that no argument was presented in that case that a single guidelines scoresheet was, in effect, statutorily prohibited for a series of offenses committed under both the 1983 and 1994 sentencing guidelines, § 921.001(4)(b)(l)-(2), Fla.Stat. (Supp.1994) — an argument which the state makes in this case and this court accepts.
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Detrich Williams v. State, 673 So. 2d 873 (Fla. 1st DCA 1996)…is issue is therefore without prejudice to Williams to seek relief through administrative proceedings. Williams’ second claim for relief, that he should have been sentenced under the 1994 sentencing guidelines, has been rejected in Allen v. State, 664 So. 2d 4 (Fla. 3d DCA 1995); Wood v. State, 655 So. 2d 212 (Fla. 5th DCA 1995). AFFIRMED. JOANOS and VAN NORTWICK, JJ., concur.…
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Studnicka v. State, 679 So. 2d 819 (Fla. 3d DCA 1996)…sentenced pursuant to such provisions. 2. The 1994 guidelines apply to sentencing for all felonies, except capital felonies, committed on or after January 1, 1994. See generally Tooley v. State, 675 So. 2d 984 (Fla. 5th DCA 1996); Allen v. State, 664 So. 2d 4, 5 (Fla. 3d DCA 1995).…
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Tooley v. State, 675 So. 2d 984 (Fla. 5th DCA 1996)…t had allowed an election of the 1994 guidelines had been deleted. We then withdrew our prior opinion, and affirmed sentencing under the guidelines in effect when the crimes were committed (1983 guidelines as amended). Similarly, in Allen v. State, 664 So. 2d 4 (Fla. 3d DCA 1995), the defendant committed one crime in 1993. The sentencing took place after January of 1994, following a viola [*987] tion of probation. The defendant argued he was entitled to elect sentencing under the 1994 guidelines, based on…
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