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NOT FINAL UNTIL TIME EXPIRES TO FILE MOTION FOR REHEARING AND DISPOSITION THEREOF IF FILED DERRICK DESHAWN WILKERSON, Appellant, v. STATE OF FLORIDA, Appellee.
We affirm on all issues but write to address a scrivener's error in the written sentencing order.
The court orally pronounced that “as to Count–II, you'll be sentenced to 25 years in the Florida Department of Corrections, 10 of which is a firearm mandatory/minimum․” In conflict with the oral pronouncement, the written sentence reflects that a twenty-year firearm mandatory minimum was imposed on Count II.1 The written sentence should be corrected to conform to the oral pronouncement. Croskey v. State, 71 So.3d 199 (Fla. 5th DCA 2011) (remanding for correction of erroneous written sentencing order to conform to oral pronouncement; explaining that written order imposing a twenty-year mandatory minimum pursuant to section 775.087(2)(a)2., Florida Statutes (2008), was erroneous where the jury specifically found appellant possessed but did not discharge a firearm and trial judge's oral pronouncement of a ten-year minimum mandatory sentence pursuant to section 775.087(2)(a), Florida Statutes (2008), was correct); see also Douglas v. State, 39 Fla. L. Weekly D1251 (Fla. 1st DCA June 11, 2014) (affirming judgment and sentence but remanding for correction of written sentence to match oral pronouncement).
AFFIRMED; REMANDED for correction of scrivener's error.
TORPY, C.J., SAWAYA and PALMER, JJ., concur.
FOOTNOTES
FN1. The written sentence not only conflicts with the oral pronouncement but it also conflicts with the jury's verdict finding that “the defendant did actually possess and carry display, use or threaten to use a firearm.” See § 775.087(2)(a), Fla. Stat. (2011) (providing that a defendant who possesses a firearm during the commission of the offense shall be sentenced to a minimum term of imprisonment of ten years). On Count II, the jury did not find that the defendant discharged the firearm.. FN1. The written sentence not only conflicts with the oral pronouncement but it also conflicts with the jury's verdict finding that “the defendant did actually possess and carry display, use or threaten to use a firearm.” See § 775.087(2)(a), Fla. Stat. (2011) (providing that a defendant who possesses a firearm during the commission of the offense shall be sentenced to a minimum term of imprisonment of ten years). On Count II, the jury did not find that the defendant discharged the firearm.
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Docket No: Case No. 5D13–4074
Decided: July 18, 2014
Court: District Court of Appeal of Florida, Fifth District.
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