Case ID: so2d_509/html/0960-02.html
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Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

William Richard TORO, Appellant, v. STATE of Florida, Appellee.
    No. 85-2192.
    District Court of Appeal of Florida, Second District.
    June 24, 1987.
    
      James Marion Moorman, Public Defender, and Joel E. Grigsby, Asst. Public Defender, Bartow, for appellant.
    Robert A. Butterworth, Atty. Gen., Tallahassee, and James A. Young, Asst. Atty. Gen., Tampa, for appellee.
   CAMPBELL, Judge.

Appellant, William Toro, appeals his final judgment and sentence for burglary of a dwelling and grand theft. He was sentenced to a total of ten years imprisonment with seven years for burglary and three years for grand theft. The guidelines recommended a sentence of two-and-one-half to three-and-one-half years. The court based its departure from the guidelines recommendation on the fact that appellant had been adjudged a habitual offender. However, the supreme court has held that the habitual offender status is not a valid reason to depart from the guidelines. Whitehead v. State, 498 So.2d 863 (Fla.1986).

Case law provides that a court must state clear and convincing reasons to justify departure from the guidelines. Here, although the court stated several reasons, they were all based on appellant’s prior record. Since the court stated no other reasons for departure when it sentenced appellant, it may not depart from the guidelines upon. resentencing. Therefore, we remand for resentencing within the guidelines.

SCHEB, A.C.J., and FRANK, J., concur.