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Dirk v. State

District Court of Appeal of Florida, Fifth District
Dec 5, 1985
479 So. 2d 265 (Fla. Dist. Ct. App. 1985)

Opinion

Nos. 85-256, 85-403 and 85-407.

December 5, 1985.

Appeal from the Circuit Court for Brevard County, Edward M. Jackson, Judge.

James B. Gibson, Public Defender, and Larry B. Henderson, Asst. Public Defender, Daytona Beach, for appellant.

Jim Smith, Atty. Gen., Tallahassee, and W. Brian Bayly, Asst. Atty. Gen., Daytona Beach, for appellee.


Dirk appeals from his convictions and sentences for burglary with an assault, robbery, sexual battery with threat or violence likely to cause personal injury, battery on a law enforcement officer, and burglary. The criminal charges were prosecuted in three separate proceedings, but the same trial judge sentenced appellant for all convictions at the same sentencing hearing, using one "scoresheet." This court, however, consolidated the appeals because they have the same sentencing defects, which require reversal. We affirm the convictions.

§ 810.02(2)(a), Fla. Stat. (1983), case no. 85-407.

§ 812.13(2)(c), Fla. Stat. (1983), case no. 85-407.

§ 794.011(4)(b), Fla. Stat. (1983), case no. 85-407.

§§ 784.03, 784.07(1) and (2)(b), Fla. Stat. (1983), case no. 85-403.

§ 810.02(1), Fla. Stat. (1983), case no. 85-256.

Fla.R.Crim.P. 3.701.d.1. Although no scoresheet is in the record afforded us, the parties agree that one was prepared and discussed at sentencing.

The trial court gave the same list of fifteen reasons for departing from the presumptive sentence range in these cases. Several of the reasons are legally insufficient. When both valid and invalid reasons are relied upon by a trial court for going outside the sentencing guidelines, an appellate court must reverse unless it is convinced beyond a reasonable doubt that the sentence was not affected by the invalid reasons. Here, that test has not been met.

The trial judge said the presumptive guideline sentence was between 5 and 7 1/2 years, although this was perhaps erroneously based on the burglary rather than the sexual battery grid. In any event, he departed by sentencing Dirk to consecutive sentences of life, 30 years, 15 years (case no. 85-407), and two 5 year consecutive sentences (case nos. 85-256 and 85-403).

Carney v. State, 458 So.2d 13 (Fla. 1st DCA 1984), approved, 476 So.2d 165 (Fla. 1985); Bowdoin v. State, 464 So.2d 596 (Fla. 4th DCA 1985); Mischler v. State, 458 So.2d 37 (Fla. 4th DCA 1984).

Albritton v. State, 476 So.2d 158 (Fla. 1985); State v. Young, 476 So.2d 161 (Fla. 1985).

AFFIRMED IN PART; REVERSED IN PART.

COBB, C.J., and ORFINGER, J., concur.


Summaries of

Dirk v. State

District Court of Appeal of Florida, Fifth District
Dec 5, 1985
479 So. 2d 265 (Fla. Dist. Ct. App. 1985)
Case details for

Dirk v. State

Case Details

Full title:GARY MARSHALL DIRK, APPELLANT, v. STATE OF FLORIDA, APPELLEE

Court:District Court of Appeal of Florida, Fifth District

Date published: Dec 5, 1985

Citations

479 So. 2d 265 (Fla. Dist. Ct. App. 1985)

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