Case Name: Wanda Cox EDWARDS, Appellant, v. STATE of Florida, Appellee
Court: Florida District Court of Appeal
Jurisdiction: Florida
Decision Date: 1990-12-07
Citations: 570 So. 2d 1116
Docket Number: No. 89-02248
Parties: Wanda Cox EDWARDS, Appellant, v. STATE of Florida, Appellee.
Judges: FRANK, A.C.J., and PATTERSON and ALTENBERND, JJ., concur.
Reporter: Southern Reporter, Second Series
Volume: 570
Pages: 1116–1116

Head Matter:
Wanda Cox EDWARDS, Appellant, v. STATE of Florida, Appellee.
No. 89-02248.
District Court of Appeal of Florida, Second District.
Dec. 7, 1990.
James Marion Moorman, Public Defender, and Deborah K. Brueckheimer, Asst. Public Defender, Bartow, for appellant.
Robert A. Butterworth, Atty. Gen., Tallahassee, and Brenda S. Taylor, Asst. Atty. Gen., Tampa, for appellee.

Opinion:
PER CURIAM.
Appellant pled nolo contendere to delivery of cocaine. The applicable permitted guidelines sentencing range was probation to three and one-half years' imprisonment. The trial judge imposed a' five-year sentence, which he then suspended by placing appellant on five years of probation, on the condition that she serve one year in jail.
The trial judge used "timing" as a basis to depart, but appellant's criminal history does not demonstrate the type of escalating or persistent pattern that is required for departure. See State v. Simpson, 554 So.2d 506 (Fla.1989), and State v. Jones, 530 So.2d 53 (Fla.1988).
Therefore, we strike the five-year suspended sentence but uphold the balance of appellant's sentence.
Reversed in part.
FRANK, A.C.J., and PATTERSON and ALTENBERND, JJ., concur.