Case Name: Janet USATCH, Appellant, v. STATE of Florida, Appellee
Court: Florida District Court of Appeal
Jurisdiction: Florida
Decision Date: 1994-12-21
Citations: 647 So. 2d 1042
Docket Number: No. 94-0359
Parties: Janet USATCH, Appellant, v. STATE of Florida, Appellee.
Judges: GLICKSTEIN and FARMER, JJ., and HUBBART, PHILLIP A., Associate Judge, concur.
Reporter: Southern Reporter, Second Series
Volume: 647
Pages: 1042–1043

Head Matter:
Janet USATCH, Appellant, v. STATE of Florida, Appellee.
No. 94-0359.
District Court of Appeal of Florida, Fourth District.
Dec. 21, 1994.
Richard I. Beilis, Law Offices of Richard I. Beilis, Plantation, for appellant.
Robert A. Butterworth, Atty. Gen., Tallahassee, and Sharon A. Wood, Asst. Atty. Gen., West Palm Beach, for appellee.

Opinion:
PER CURIAM.
This is an appeal by the defendant Janet Usatch from a post-trial order vacating her adjudication of guilt for grand theft entered in 1986, withholding adjudication for this offense, and extending her 1986 probationary term from ten to fifteen years. Because (1) no affidavit of violation of probation was ever filed by the state in this ease [the trial court's action below was taken solely on the complainant's motion to require the defendant to pay previously ordered restitution], and (2) no evidence was adduced below that the defendant ever violated her probation for failure to make restitution "to the best of her ability," as required, we accept the state's confession of error that the order under review must be reversed as erroneously entered and the defendant's original probation reinstated. Green v. State, 638 So.2d 1006 (Fla. 4th DCA 1994).
The order appealed from is reversed, and the cause is remanded to the trial court with directions to reinstate the defendant's original adjudication of guilt and ten-year probation.
REVERSED AND REMANDED.
GLICKSTEIN and FARMER, JJ., and HUBBART, PHILLIP A., Associate Judge, concur.