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Quincy O. CHISHOLM, Appellant, v. STATE of Florida, Appellee.
    No. 95-0778.
    District Court of Appeal of Florida, Fourth District.
    Feb. 14, 1996.
    
      Richard L. Jorandby, Public Defender, and Marcy K. Allen, Assistant Public Defender, West Palm Beach, for appellant.
    Robert A. Butterworth, Attorney General, Tallahassee, and Anne Carrion, Assistant Attorney General, West Palm Beach, for appel-lee.
   PER CURIAM.

Appellant’s sentence to six years in prison, in case no. 93-462, exceeds the guidelines-permitted range of two and one-half to five and one-half years incarceration. At sentencing, the court and all the parties were under the mistaken impression that the range under the scoresheet was three and one-half to seven years.

Although Appellant acknowledged at sentencing that he was facing a potential seven year sentence, this cannot be construed as acquiescence to the higher grid where neither he nor the court understood that the sentence to be imposed was a guidelines departure. See Calleja v. State, 562 So.2d 395 (Fla. 5th DCA 1990).

We therefore reverse the sentence and remand for resentencing. On remand, the trial court may consider a departure sentence. State v. Betancourt, 552 So.2d 1107 (Fla.1989).

GUNTHER, C.J., and STONE and GROSS, JJ., concur.