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Kopko v. State

District Court of Appeal of Florida, Fifth District
Jun 20, 1994
638 So. 2d 529 (Fla. Dist. Ct. App. 1994)

Opinion

No. 93-527.

April 29, 1994. Rehearing Denied June 20, 1994.

Appeal from the Circuit Court, John H. Adams, Sr., J.

James B. Gibson, Public Defender, and Anne Moorman Reeves, Asst. Public Defender, Daytona Beach, for appellant.

Martin David Kopko, pro se.

Robert A. Butterworth, Atty. Gen., Tallahassee, and Belle B. Turner, Asst. Atty. Gen., Daytona Beach, for appellee.


Following remand by this court, Kopko was resentenced on Count II for lewd assault on a child under age 16. He had earlier been sentenced to life (with a 25 year minimum mandatory) on Count I for sexual battery on a child under age 12. At resentencing on Count II, the judge imposed a 15 year suspended sentence conditioned on the successful completion of 15 years of probation, consecutive to the life sentence. The trial judge said he intended to impose a departure sentence upward from the applicable sentencing guidelines brackets but he failed to file contemporaneous written reasons.

Kopko v. State, 577 So.2d 956 (Fla. 5th DCA 1991), quashed, 596 So.2d 669 (Fla. 1992).

§ 800.04, Fla. Stat. (Supp. 1986).

We have no alternative but to vacate the sentence appealed and remand for resentencing pursuant to the guidelines. Fla. R.Crim.P. 3.701(d)(11). Pope v. State, 561 So.2d 554 (Fla. 1990); Wright v. State, 617 So.2d 837, 840-41 (Fla. 4th DCA 1993); see Rivero v. State, 592 So.2d 381 (Fla. 5th DCA 1992); Rodwell v. State, 588 So.2d 19 (Fla. 5th DCA 1991), review denied, 599 So.2d 657 (1992).

Sentence VACATED; REMANDED.

DIAMANTIS and THOMPSON, JJ., concur.


Summaries of

Kopko v. State

District Court of Appeal of Florida, Fifth District
Jun 20, 1994
638 So. 2d 529 (Fla. Dist. Ct. App. 1994)
Case details for

Kopko v. State

Case Details

Full title:MARTIN DAVID KOPKO, APPELLANT, v. STATE OF FLORIDA, APPELLEE

Court:District Court of Appeal of Florida, Fifth District

Date published: Jun 20, 1994

Citations

638 So. 2d 529 (Fla. Dist. Ct. App. 1994)

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