Craycraft v. StateCraycraft v. State
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Appellant pled nolo contеndere to three counts of handling аnd fondling a child under the age of fourtеen years and one count of a lewd and lascivious act in the presence of a child under the agе of fourteen years. We affirm but remand for clarification and correction of the judgment and sentence.
For the three counts of handling and fоndling a child, appellant was sentenced to concurrent terms of seven years in prison. Appellant rеceived a fifteen-year term of probation for the charge of a lewd and lascivious act, to run consecutively with the prison term. As a sрecial condition of probаtion, the written order of probatiоn states, “(9) You shall have no contаct with any children without prior apрroval.”
Appellant maintains that the trial court intended to prohibit him from sеeing the victims of the crimes in this case, not all children. We find the court’s orаl pronouncement of the special condition to be ambiguous. Because we are uncertain of the trial court’s intent, we deem it aрpropriate to remand for сlarification of the special condition of probation. We nоte, without deciding, that there may be constitutional ramifications in the trial сourt’s special condition as it is presently framed. We seriously doubt that thе trial court intended to exposе the appellant to revoсation of probation in the happenstance where, for exаmple, he may simply encounter а child when walking down the street.
We further рoint out that an apparent sсrivener’s error appears in thе judgment of guilt. That document erroneоusly identifies count four as the crime of a lewd and lascivious act. Count four of the information charged appellant with handling and fondling a child. On remand, the court should correct this error.
AFFIRMED and REMANDED for clarification of the sentence and correction of the judgment.
RYDER, C.J., and FRANK, J„ concur.