Case Name: Ivel VILLANUEVA, Appellant, v. The STATE of Florida, Appellee
Court: Florida District Court of Appeal
Jurisdiction: Florida
Decision Date: 2001-02-21
Citations: 778 So. 2d 484
Docket Number: No. 3D00-1901
Parties: Ivel VILLANUEVA, Appellant, v. The STATE of Florida, Appellee.
Judges: Before GODERICH and SORONDO, JJ., and NESBITT, Senior Judge.
Reporter: Southern Reporter, Second Series
Volume: 778
Pages: 484–485

Head Matter:
Ivel VILLANUEVA, Appellant, v. The STATE of Florida, Appellee.
No. 3D00-1901.
District Court of Appeal of Florida, Third District.
Feb. 21, 2001.
Howard Sohn, for appellant.
Robert A. Butterworth, Attorney General, and Fredericka Sands, Assistant Attorney General, for appellee.
Before GODERICH and SORONDO, JJ., and NESBITT, Senior Judge.

Opinion:
PER CURIAM.
The defendant appeals from his revocation of probation and sentence alleging that the trial court abused its discretion by denying the assistant public defender's motion for a continuance of the probation violation hearing because he was not adequately prepared to proceed. Under the circumstances of this case, where the affidavit of violation of probation alleged a substantive violation that occurred in another county, where there was a very short period of time between the defendant's arrest and the probation hearing, and where there was confusion as to whether the case was noticed for a report or for the actual probation violation hearing, we find that the trial court abused its discretion by denying the assistant public defender's motion for continuance. See Smith v. State, 525 So.2d 477, 479 (Fla. 1st DCA 1988).
Reversed and remanded for further proceedings consistent with this opinion.
GODERICH AND NESBITT, JJ., concur.