Daniel Joseph POPE, Petitioner,
v.
STATE of Florida, Respondent.
Supreme Court of Florida.
*555 James B. Gibson, Public Defender, James R. Wulchak, Chief, Appellate Div., and Larry B. Henderson, Asst. Public Defender, Daytona Beach, for petitioner.
Robert A. Butterworth, Atty. Gen., Kellie A. Nielan and Bonnie Jean Parrish, Asst. Attys. Gen., Daytona Beach, for respondent.
CORRECTED OPINION
BARKETT, Justice.
We have for review Pope v. State,
Pope was found guilty of violating community control. The recommended guidelines sentence, after considering the one-cell increase for that violation, ranged from community control to twelve-to-thirty months' incarceration. Instead, the trial court imposed a departure sentence of two concurrent five-year terms of imprisonment, followed by two years' community control. At the sentencing hearing, the trial court orally gave reasons for the departure sentence, but did not provide reasons in writing pursuant to the requirements of Florida Rule of Criminal Procedure 3.701(d)(11). That rule provides:
Any sentence outside the permitted guideline range must be accompanied by a written statement delineating the reasons for the departure.
The district court correctly vacated the sentence due to the trial court's failure to provide written reasons. State v. Jackson,
Pope contends that Jackson and Shull v. Dugger,
In Jackson, this Court recognized that compliance with rule 3.701(d)(11) promotes a more meaningful and expeditious appellate review. Jackson,
After Jackson, when a trial court failed to provide written reasons, some district courts remanded for resentencing within the guidelines,[2] while others remanded to permit the trial court to depart from the guidelines again after providing written reasons.[3]
In Shull we held that, upon remand, a sentencing judge would not be permitted to provide new reasons for departure when the initial reasons had been reversed by an appellate court. Shull,
Effectively, Jackson and Shull both determined that at the point of remand no valid reasons for departure existed under the rule. Jackson said oral reasons were invalid and required resentencing. Shull said invalid reasons, even if written, must be remanded only for a guidelines sentence.
Applying the principles of Jackson and Shull, and for the same policy reasons, we hold that when an appellate court reverses a departure sentence because there were no written reasons, the court must remand for resentencing with no possibility of departure from the guidelines.
Although this issue was not the primary focus of the appeal, we recognize that in Barbera v. State,
We quash the opinion of the district court and remand for proceedings consistent herewith.
It is so ordered.
EHRLICH, C.J., and OVERTON, McDONALD and KOGAN, JJ., concur.
GRIMES, J., concurs with an opinion, in which SHAW, J., concurs.
SHAW, J., concurs in result only with an opinion, in which GRIMES, J., concurs.
GRIMES, Justice, concurring.
At the time this Court decided State v. Jackson,
Because Pope's sentence was not imposed until 1988, I am willing to apply the principle of Shull v. Dugger,
SHAW, J., concurs.
SHAW, Justice, concurring in result only.
I write to clarify what I see as a discrepancy in the majority opinion. The majority cites State v. Jackson,
GRIMES, J., concurs.
NOTES
Notes
[1] We have jurisdiction. Art. V, § 3(b)(3), Fla. Const.
[2] See, e.g., Rangel v. State,
[3] See, e.g., State v. Simmons,
[*] See also Jackson v. State,
