Case Name: Cherokee GUERRA, Appellant, v. STATE of Florida, Appellee
Court: Florida District Court of Appeal
Jurisdiction: Florida
Decision Date: 1993-09-03
Citations: 623 So. 2d 610
Docket Number: No. 92-2485
Parties: Cherokee GUERRA, Appellant, v. STATE of Florida, Appellee.
Judges: HARRIS, C.J., and W. SHARP and PETERSON, JJ., concur.
Reporter: Southern Reporter, Second Series
Volume: 623
Pages: 610–611

Head Matter:
Cherokee GUERRA, Appellant, v. STATE of Florida, Appellee.
No. 92-2485.
District Court of Appeal of Florida, Fifth District.
Sept. 3, 1993.
James B. Gibson, Public Defender, and S.C. VanVoorhees, Asst. Public Defender, Daytona Beach, for appellant.
Robert A. Butterworth, Atty. Gen., Tallahassee, and Bonnie Jean Parrish, Asst. Atty. Gen., Daytona Beach, for appellee.

Opinion:
PER CURIAM.
It has become axiomatic under Florida sentencing law that a court may not depart from the guidelines without providing timely filed written reasons. Here, by supporting the departure only with oral reasons at the sentencing hearing, the trial court erroneously imposed a sentence one and one-half years in excess of the guidelines. Ree v. State, 565 So.2d 1329 (Fla.1990). The failure to support the departure deprives the trial court of the opportunity to impose the harsher sentence upon remand. Pope v. State, 561 So.2d 554 (Fla.1990). The judgment of conviction is affirmed, but the sentence is vacated and we remand for resentencing within the guidelines.
HARRIS, C.J., and W. SHARP and PETERSON, JJ., concur.