Case Name: Telly Jon KNOTT, Appellant, v. STATE of Florida, Appellee
Court: Florida District Court of Appeal
Jurisdiction: Florida
Decision Date: 2016-04-27
Citations: 190 So. 3d 222
Docket Number: No. 4D14-3590
Parties: Telly Jon KNOTT, Appellant, v. STATE of Florida, Appellee.
Judges: ‘ CIKLIN, C.J., WARNER and KLINGENSMITH, JJ., concur.
Reporter: Southern Reporter, Third Series
Volume: 190
Pages: 222–222

Head Matter:
Telly Jon KNOTT, Appellant, v. STATE of Florida, Appellee.
No. 4D14-3590.
District Court of Appeal of Florida, Fourth District.
April 27, 2016.
Carey Haughwout, Public Defender, and Alan T. Lipson, Assistant Public Defender, West Palm Beach, for appellant.
Pamela Jo Bondi, Attorney General, Tallahassee, and James J. Carney, Assistant Attorney General, West Palm Beach, for appellee.

Opinion:
PER CURIAM.
Appellant challenges his state prison sentence, where his Criminal Punishment Code sentencing score required a non-state prison sentence unless the court made written findings that such a sentence could present a danger to the public. See § 775.082(10), Fla. Stat. (2013). The trial court made the required findings at the sentencing hearing, but' entered a written order only after appellant had filed a notice of appeal of the sentence, depriving the court of jurisdiction. Appellant thereafter moved to correct the sentence under Florida Rule- of Criminal Procedure 3.800(b)(2), claiming that the sentence was illegal because the written findings were entered after the eotirt lost jurisdiction. In denying this motion, a successor judge attached the previously-entered written findings to its order. We find that by accepting and attaching the written findings, the court fulfilled the statutory requirement, and appellant was not prejudiced. See Mandri v. State, 813 So.2d 65 (Fla.2002) (finding that failure to file written reasons was harmless error corrected by court filing written reasons in response to motion to correct sentence).
Affirmed.
' CIKLIN, C.J., WARNER and KLINGENSMITH, JJ., concur.