Supreme Court of Florida

A trial court can correct a "scrivener's error" during sentencing without violating double jeopardy, where defendant had no expectation of finality after the court imposed a first oral sentence. (Revised opinion)

Appellate Information

• Decided 07/11/2002
• Published 01/09/2003

Judges

• QUINCE, J.

Court

• Supreme Court of Florida

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Nancy A. Daniels, Public Defender, and Paula S. Saunders, Assistant Public Defender, Second Judicial Circuit, Tallahassee, for Petitioner.


• For Appellees:
  
• Charlie Crist, Attorney General, James W. Rogers, Tallahassee Bureau Chief, Criminal Appeals, and Trisha E. Meggs, Assistant Attorney General, Tallahassee, for Respondent.