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Intermittant or Interrupted Sentences. Since Florida Statutes do not authorize intermittent or interrupted sentences, when a defendant is given a split sentence, the nonincarcerative portion must immediately follow the prison sentence.31 Note, however, that section 948.012 does authorize a “reverse split sentence” whereby the defendant is sentenced to a term of probation which is followed by a period of incarceration or community control under certain circumstances.32 A defendant cannot serve a prison term and be on probation simultaneously: The rehabilitative concept of probation presupposes that the probationer is not in prison confinement.33 A defendant may not be sentenced to prison and community supervision where the community supervision is scheduled to commence prior to the completion of the term of imprisonment.34 When a defendant is sentenced on multiple counts in a single sentencing event, the incarcerative periods of all counts must be completed before the probationary portion of any count begins.35 A prison sentence imposed partly concurrent with and partly consecutive to another prison sentence is illegal since a prisoner has the right to serve a sentence at one stretch, rather than in bits and pieces. It is impossible to comply with a sentence of simultaneous incarceration and probation, and any term of probation presumed to run when the defendant cannot be supervised is a nullity.37 This does not apply, however, in the situation in which incarceration in county jail is a condition of probation.
2See, Platt v. State, 664 So. 2d 307 (Fla. 2d DCA 1995); Kirkland v. State, 633 So. 2d 1138 (Fla. 2d DCA 1994).
4Almendares v. State, 916 So. 2d 29 (Fla. 4th DCA 2005); Rodriguez v. State, 883 So. 2d 908 (Fla. 2d DCA 2004).
5“When a statute expressly directs that imprisonment be in a state prison, the court may impose a sentence of imprisonment in the county jail if the total of the prisoner's cumulative sentences is not more than 1 year.” § 922.051, Fla. Stat.
6Armstrong v. State, 656 So. 2d 455 (Fla. 1995) (a defendant may be sentenced to consecutive terms in county jail exceeding one year if convicted of multiple misdemeanors); Goodloe v. State, 661 So. 2d 820 (Fla. 1995); Gwynn v. Orange County Bd. of County Comrs, 527 So. 2d 866 (Fla. 5th DCA 1988) (following adjudication of guilt in county court on fifteen misdemeanor traffic offenses and several contempt of court charges, defendant properly sentenced to 12 consecutive one year terms of imprisonment in the county jail); Amrein v. State, 504 So. 2d 783 (Fla. 1st DCA 1987) (consecutive eight month county jail sentences for each of five misdemeanor counts, the sentences to run consecutively to each other, permitted); Mancebo v. State, 338 So. 2d 268 (Fla. 3d DCA 1976) (defendant properly sentenced to serve three consecutive sentences of one year each in the county jail following the entry of pleas of guilty to three separate first-degree misdemeanors); see, Carson v. State, 635 So. 2d 1007 (Fla. 5th DCA 1994) (error for a trial court to sentence a defendant to multiple consecutive one-year sentences in a county jail when the sentences imposed are for felony crimes).
14Jarrell v. State, 576 So. 2d 793 (Fla. 2d DCA 1991).
15Kelly v. State, 964 So. 2d 135 (Fla. 2007).
16Williams v. State, 186 So. 3d 989 (Fla. 2016).
17Hale v. State, 630 So. 2d 521 (Fla. 1993) (habitual felony offender); Daniels v. State, 595 So. 2d 952 (Fla. 1992) (habitual violent felony offender); Spivey v. State, 789 So. 2d 1087 (Fla. 2d DCA 2001) (violent career criminal).
18Daniels v. State, 595 So. 2d 952 (Fla. 1992).
19Daniels v. State, 595 So. 2d 952 (Fla. 1992).
20Benjamin v. State, 667 So. 2d 437 (Fla. 2d DCA 1996).
21Walsh v. State, 198 So. 3d 783 (Fla. 2d DCA 2016), review denied, 2016 WL 5871665 (Fla. 2016).
22Cotto v. State, 139 So. 3d 283 (Fla. 2014).
23Downs v. State, 616 So. 2d 444 (Fla. 1993) (consecutive 25-year minimum mandatory for first-degree murder with a firearm and three-year minimum mandatory for using a firearm in the commission of an aggravated assault arising from a single criminal episode).
24Boler v. State, 678 So. 2d 319 (Fla. 1996).
25Traylor v. State, 785 So. 2d 1179 (Fla. 2000).
28Richardson v. State, 947 So. 2d 1219 (Fla. 1st DCA 2007).
29§ 921.16(1), Fla. Stat.; Richardson v. State, 947 So. 2d 1219 (Fla. 1st DCA 2007) (trial court may order a sentence to run concurrently or consecutively to a pending control release violation); McCarthur v. State, 766 So. 2d 292 (Fla. 4th DCA 2000) (trial court must exercise its discretion to sentence the offender to concurrent or consecutive sentences to control release violation in an earlier case); Art. I, § 8, Fla. Const. (barring an administrative agency from imposing a sentence of imprisonment); Pearson v. Moore, 767 So. 2d 1235, 1238–39 (Fla. 1st DCA 2000), approved and remanded, 789 So. 2d 316 (Fla. 2001).
30Scantling v. State, 711 So. 2d 524, 525–26 (Fla. 1998); see also, § 947.141, Fla. Stat.
31Calhoun v. State, 522 So. 2d 509 (Fla. 1st DCA 1988) (defendant cannot be sentenced to a period of incarceration, followed by a period of probation, then recalled to serve more prison time before being released to be placed on probation again for separate counts of burglary).
33See, Bernhardt v. State, 288 So. 2d 490 (Fla. 1974); Porter v. State, 585 So. 2d 399 (Fla. 1st DCA 1991).
34Flowers v. State, 899 So. 2d 1257 (Fla. 4th DCA 2005); Joseph v. State, 752 So. 2d 656 (Fla. 2d DCA 2000).
35Smith v. State, 147 So. 3d 1077 (Fla. 5th DCA 2014); Hatton v. State, 689 So. 2d 1195 (Fla. 4th DCA 1997).
36Stroman v. State, 837 So. 2d 1070 (Fla. 2d DCA 2003); Butler v. State, 548 So. 2d 780, 781 (Fla. 2d DCA 1989); see also, Massey v. State, 389 So. 2d 712 (Fla. 2d DCA 1980); Rozmestor v. State, 381 So. 2d 324 (Fla. 5th DCA 1980) (“Imposing a prison sentence that is part concurrent with and part consecutive to another prison sentence is a punishment that no judge under the entire body of sentencing statutes could possibly inflict under any set of factual circumstances, and is an illegal sentence.”).
37Clemons v. State, 629 So. 2d 1067 (Fla. 2d DCA 1994); Ware v. State, 474 So. 2d 332 (Fla. 1st DCA 1985); Brudie v. State, 467 So. 2d 1113 (Fla. 2d DCA 1985).
38Foster v. State, 889 So. 2d 951 (Fla. 5th DCA 2004); Schurman v. State, 847 So. 2d 569 (Fla. 1st DCA 2003).

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