JONES v. STATE (2024)

Marquise Deon Jones appeals from a judgment and sentence and order of probation resulting from a negotiated plea, to correct a scrivener's error in the judgment.¹ Jones preserved the error by filing a motion under Florida Rule of Criminal Procedure 3.800(b) while the appeal was pending, which motion is deemed denied because the trial court did not rule on the motion within sixty days. See Fla. R. Crim. P. 3.800(b)(2)(B). The State concedes the scrivener's error.

We affirm the judgment and sentence and order of probation; and we remand for the trial court to correct the scrivener's error in the judgment to reflect that, on count four, Appellant pleaded nolo contendere to, and was adjudicated guilty of, petit theft, a second-degree misdemeanor, under section 812.014(3)(a), Florida Statutes. See White v. State, 49 Fla. L. Weekly D1810, ––– So.3d ––––, 2024 WL 3997917 (Fla. 6th DCA Aug. 30, 2024); Addison v. State, 49 Fla. L. Weekly D1794, ––– So.3d ––––, 2024 WL 3957129 (Fla. 1st DCA Aug. 28, 2024); Carrion v. State, 349 So. 3d 479, 480 (Fla. 2d DCA 2022); Rivas v. State, 338 So. 3d 1098, 1099 (Fla. 5th DCA 2022). Jones need not be present when the trial court makes this correction.

AFFIRMED and REMANDED for correction.

FOOTNOTES

1.   This case was transferred from the Fifth District Court of Appeal to this Court on January 1, 2023.

GANNAM, J.

WOZNIAK and SMITH, JJ., concur.