Case ID: so2d_673/html/0530-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "PER CURIAM.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

Robert PATTON, Appellant, v. STATE of Florida, Appellee.
    No. 95-1382.
    District Court of Appeal of Florida, Fourth District.
    May 1, 1996.
    Rehearing and/or Clarification Denied June 3, 1996.
    Richard L. Jorandby, Public Defender, and Mallorye G. Cunningham, Assistant Public Defender, West Palm Beach, for appellant.
    Robert A. Butterworth, Attorney General, Tallahassee, and Sarah B. Mayer, Assistant Attorney General, West Palm Beach, for ap-pellee.
   PER CURIAM.

The oral pronouncement of seven years’ probation for a first-degree misdemeanor is an illegal sentence. However, the written judgment reflects a probationary sentence of one year, which is a legal sentence. Appellant clearly -undertook this appeal out of concern for the rule in Kord v. State, 508 So.2d 758 (Fla. 4th DCA 1987). This rule is inapplicable where, as here, the oral sentence is illegal. We therefore disregard the illegal oral sentence on the first degree misdemean- or conviction, and affirm appellant’s sentence as reflected in the written judgment of guilt.

GLICKSTEIN, STONE and GROSS, JJ., concur.