LAFOND v. STATE (2026)

District Court of Appeal of Florida, Fourth District.

Richard LAFOND, Appellant, v. STATE of Florida, Appellee.

No. 4D2026-0672

Decided: October 21, 2026

Antony P. Ryan, Regional Counsel, and Louis G. Carres, Assistant Regional Counsel, Office of Criminal Conflict and Civil Regional Counsel, West Palm Beach, for appellant. No appearance required for appellee.

Richard Lafond appeals from his conviction and sentence following a negotiated plea. Appellate counsel has filed an Anders ¹ brief. We affirm the conviction and sentence, but remand for the trial court to correct a scrivener's error in the written judgment.

Lafond pled guilty to petit theft as a first-degree misdemeanor. When Lafond committed the crime in August 2024, petit theft was defined in section 812.014(2)(e), Florida Statutes (2024). However, the judgment erroneously reflects the offense statute number as section 812.014(2)(f), which defined the offense of grand theft of a firearm with a prior conviction.

We direct the trial court to correct this error in the judgment on remand. Lafond need not be present for this ministerial action. See Hatter v. State, 425 So. 3d 51, 52 (Fla. 4th DCA 2025); Bailey v. State, 350 So. 3d 753 (Fla. 4th DCA 2022).

Affirmed and remanded.

FOOTNOTES

1. Anders v. California, 386 U.S. 738, 87 S.Ct. 1396, 18 L.Ed.2d 493 (1967).

Per Curiam.

Conner, Forst and Shaw, JJ., concur.

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