Case ID: so2d_546/html/1181-01.html
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Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

STATE of Florida, Appellant, v. David Lee ZAISER, Appellee.
    No. 88-1458.
    District Court of Appeal of Florida, Fifth District.
    Aug. 3, 1989.
    Robert A. Butterworth, Atty. Gen., Tallahassee, and Colin Campbell, Asst. Atty. Gen., Daytona Beach, for appellant.
    John R. Parker, Titusville, for appellee.
   DAUKSCH, Judge.

This is an appeal from a guidelines departure sentence.

The trial judge departed downwards from the recommended guidelines sentence and gave two reasons: “no prior record” and “recommendation of probation office.” Neither reason is a valid reason for departure. Sanders v. State, 510 So.2d 296 (Fla. 1987); State v. D’Alexander, 496 So.2d 1007 (Fla. 2d DCA 1986); Montgomery v. State, 489 So.2d 1225 (Fla. 5th DCA 1986).

SENTENCE VACATED; REMANDED.

ORFINGER, J., concurs.

SHARP, J., dissents without opinion.