Case Name: Scott BLAKE, Appellant, v. STATE of Florida, Appellee
Court: Florida District Court of Appeal
Jurisdiction: Florida
Decision Date: 2002-02-20
Citations: 807 So. 2d 772
Docket Number: No. 2D01-4996
Parties: Scott BLAKE, Appellant, v. STATE of Florida, Appellee.
Judges: FULMER, J., Concurs.
Reporter: Southern Reporter, Second Series
Volume: 807
Pages: 772–774

Head Matter:
Scott BLAKE, Appellant, v. STATE of Florida, Appellee.
No. 2D01-4996.
District Court of Appeal of Florida, Second District.
Feb. 20, 2002.

Opinion:
BLUE, Chief Judge.
Scott Blake appeals the summary denial of his motion for postconviction relief, filed pursuant to Florida Rule of Criminal Procedure 3.850. The trial court denied the motion, finding that it was successive because Mr. Blake had raised the identical claim in an earlier motion filed pursuant to rule 3.800. The trial court failed to note, however, that Mr. Blake appealed the denial of his rule 3.800 motion and this court affirmed without prejudice to Mr. Blake's filing a rule 3.850 motion. Blake v. State, 788 So.2d 334 (Fla. 2d DCA 2001). Nevertheless, we affirm.
Mr. Blake is seeking jail credit for two cases. On January 16, 2000, when he was arrested in circuit court case number CRC 00-00830 CFANO, he was out on bond for circuit court case numbers CRC 99-03606 CFANO and CRC 99-21338 CFANO. He remained in jail until he pleaded no contest and was sentenced on November 6, 2000. He remained on bond for the two 1999 cases until May 9, 2000. Mr. Blake seeks credit, in the 1999 cases, for the time in jail from January 16 to May 9. He alleged that he was being denied this credit "because the computer says I was out on bond until May 9, 2000[,] on those 2 cases when in fact I was in jail with those cases pending."
An evidentiary hearing would be in order if Mr. Blake's allegations were read as an attempt to go behind the computer records to show that his bond was revoked on January 16. Jail credit issues are appropriately brought in a rule 3.850 motion "if the defendant is requesting additional jail credit due to factual matters not ascertainable from the trial court's records." Thomas v. State, 611 So.2d 600, 601 (Fla. 2d DCA 1993). Generally, however, a defendant "is only entitled to credit against each sentence for the time spent in jail for the charge which led to that sentence." Keene v. State, 500 So.2d 592, 594 (Fla. 2d DCA 1986).
If Mr. Blake's bond was not revoked until May, he would not be entitled to credit against the 1999 cases. Cf. McKnight v. State, 769 So.2d 434, 434 (Fla. 2d DCA 2000) (addressing allegation that defendant was entitled to additional jail credit "because he voluntarily canceled his bond on one charge while he was serving jail time on other unbonded charges"). Mr. Blake may be able to obtain relief, however, by alleging that he received ineffective assistance of counsel because his attorney should have advised him to voluntarily cancel his bond once he was arrested for the 2000 charge. Alternatively, Mr. Blake may be able to allege that his plea was involuntary because he was led to believe that a certain amount of credit would be applied to all of his cases.
We affirm, but our affirmance is without prejudice to any right Mr. Blake may have to seek relief in a rule 3.850 motion. Such motion shall not be considered successive.
Affirmed.
FULMER, J., Concurs.
ALTENBERND, J., Concurs with opinion.