NAPPER v. STATE (2021)

Alton Napper (“Defendant”), timely appeals the trial court's order denying his motion filed pursuant to Florida Rule of Criminal Procedure 3.800(b), alleging an error in his scoresheet. Defendant was sentenced after pleading to four charges. Both Defendant and the State agree that there was an error in Defendant's scoresheet where one of the additional offenses listed on the scoresheet was scored as 2.4 points, when it should have added only 1.2 points. “Under the ‘would-have-been-imposed’ test, scoresheet error is considered harmless if the record conclusively shows that the trial court would have imposed the same sentence using a correct scoresheet.” Harmon v. State, 284 So. 3d 1080, 1081 (Fla. 4th DCA 2019) (quoting Ray v. State, 987 So. 2d 155, 156 (Fla. 1st DCA 2008)). Our review of the record convinces us that the trial court would have imposed the same sentence if it had been presented with a correct scoresheet. Thus, we affirm the sentence but remand for the sole purpose of directing the trial court to correct the scoresheet. See id. Defendant “need not be present for the ministerial act of correcting the scoresheet on remand.” Id.

Affirmed; remanded solely for correction of scoresheet.

Conner, J.

Levine, C.J., and Gross, J., concur.