Case ID: so2d_726/html/0347-01.html
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Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

STATE of Florida, Appellant, v. Michael Lee OWENS, Appellee.
    No. 97-4549
    District Court of Appeal of Florida, Fourth District.
    Jan. 27, 1999.
    Rehearing Denied March 12, 1999.
    Robert A. Butterworth, Attorney General, Tallahassee, and James J. Carney, Assistant Attorney General, West Palm Beach, for appellant.
    Richard L. Jorandby, Public Defender, Ellen Griffin, Assistant Public Defender, West Palm Beach, for appellee.
   PER CURIAM.

The state appeals a downward departure sentence entered without oral or written reasons. We reverse, but on remand the judge shall be free to impose the same sentence if she provides reasons either stated orally on the record which are then transcribed and timely filed, or written reasons timely filed after sentencing.

GUNTHER, FARMER and HAZOURI, JJ., concur.