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Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

Jeffery Lamar RIDGEWAY, Appellant, v. STATE of Florida, Appellee.
    No. 88-380.
    District Court of Appeal of Florida, First District.
    May 10, 1989.
    Michael E. Allen, Public Defender an P. Douglas Brinkmeyer, Asst. Public Defender, Tallahassee, for appellant.
    Robert A. Butterworth, Atty. Gen. and Bradley R. Bischoff, Asst. Atty. Gen., Tallahassee, for appellee.
   ERVIN, Judge.

It was error for the trial judge to impose a departure sentence without providing written reasons therefor. State v. Hill, 492 So.2d 1072 (Fla.1986); Boynton v. State, 473 So.2d 703 (Fla. 4th DCA), approved, 478 So.2d 351 (1985), cert. denied, 475 U.S. 1029, 106 S.Ct. 1232, 89 L.Ed.2d 341 (1986). We therefore REVERSE and REMAND with directions to resentence within the guidelines or provide written reasons for departure.

BOOTH and WENTWORTH, JJ., concur. 
      
      . Appellant was sentenced to three consecutive split sentences consisting of three-year incarcer-ative terms followed by probationary terms of two years. The recommended guideline sentence was three years’ incarceration.