Case Name: Marvin Raymond BALLARD, Appellant, v. STATE of Florida, Appellee
Court: Florida District Court of Appeal
Jurisdiction: Florida
Decision Date: 1986-05-21
Citations: 501 So. 2d 1285
Docket Number: No. 85-455
Parties: Marvin Raymond BALLARD, Appellant, v. STATE of Florida, Appellee.
Judges: DOWNEY and LETTS, JJ., concur.
Reporter: Southern Reporter, Second Series
Volume: 501
Pages: 1285–1286

Head Matter:
Marvin Raymond BALLARD, Appellant, v. STATE of Florida, Appellee.
No. 85-455.
District Court of Appeal of Florida, Fourth District.
May 21, 1986.
Richard L. Jorandby, Public Defender, and Margaret Good, Asst. Public Defender, West Palm Beach, for appellant.
Jim Smith, Atty. Gen., Tallahassee, and Noel A. Pelella, Asst. Atty. Gen., West Palm Beach, for appellee.

Opinion:
PER CURIAM.
This court previously relinquished jurisdiction and remanded the case to the trial court for thirty days with directions to put in writing the reasons the court departed from the sentencing guidelines. The state has supplemented the record with the trial court's order of December 3,1985, delineating reasons for departure from the guidelines sentence. We hold that this order complies with the dictates of Boynton v. State, 473 So.2d 703 (Fla. 4th DCA 1985); affirmed State v. Boynton, 478 So.2d 351 (Fla.1985). In addition, the reasons set forth as grounds for departure from the sentencing guidelines, Ballard's escalating pattern of more serious offenses and his unamenability to rehabilitation, are clear and convincing reasons for departure. We find that the above reasons do not represent the type of "double" consideration of prior offenses prohibited by Hendrix v. State, 475 So.2d 1218 (Fla.1985), since it is not the prior offenses themselves that are considered but rather the pattern of escalating criminality discernible from them and the evidence that appellant is unam-endable to rehabilitation through the probation process. See Dorado v. State, 482 So.2d 561 (Fla. 2d DCA 1986); Booker v. State, 482 So.2d 414 (Fla. 2d DCA 1985); Smith v. State, 480 So.2d 663 (Fla. 5th DCA 1985); Kiser v. State, 455 So.2d 1071 (Fla. 1st DCA 1984); Higgs v. State, 455 So.2d 451 (Fla. 5th DCA 1984). But see Battles v. State, 482 So.2d 540 (Fla. 3d DCA 1986); Smith v. State, 479 So.2d 804 (Fla. 1st DCA 1985).
Accordingly, the sentence entered by the trial court is hereby affirmed.
DOWNEY and LETTS, JJ., concur.
HURLEY, DANIEL T.K., Associate Judge, dissents with opinion.