PHILIP FERRANTE, APPELLANT,
v.
STATE OF FLORIDA, APPELLEE

Fla. 4th DCA | 2008-08-20
No. 4D07-859
SHAHOOD, C.J., POLEN and FARMER, JJ., concur.
987 So. 2d 1284 Florida District Court of Appeal, Fourth District (2008)


Opinion of the Court
PER CURIAM.

PER CURIAM.

We reject defendant’s contention of error in consolidating for trial the two counts of the completed act with the single count of a later attempt to commit the same act. See Crossley v. State, 596 So. 2d 447, 450 (Fla.1992) (standard of review for the consolidation or severance of charges is abuse of discretion); Canakaris v. Canakaris, 382 So. 2d 1197, 1203 (Fla.1980) (discretion is abused when no reasonable judge would take the view adopted by the trial judge); Ellis v. State, 622 So. 2d 991, 1000 (Fla. 1993) (offenses are properly joined if connected in some significant way, including fact that one crime is causally related to another and was temporally proximate).

We correct the written sentence, however, to reflect the intent of the oral pronouncement of sentence: 15 years imprisonment on Count I, to be consecutive to 5 years imprisonment on Count II, to be followed by 5 years of sex offender probation for Counts II and III, the probationary terms to be concurrent.

Remanded for correction of written sentence.

SHAHOOD, C.J., POLEN and FARMER, JJ., concur.


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