Case Name: Robert Allen CASTERLINE, Appellant, v. STATE of Florida, Appellee
Court: Florida District Court of Appeal
Jurisdiction: Florida
Decision Date: 1997-10-03
Citations: 703 So. 2d 1071
Docket Number: No. 97-00981
Parties: Robert Allen CASTERLINE, Appellant, v. STATE of Florida, Appellee.
Judges: PATTERSON and LAZZARA, JJ., concur.
Reporter: Southern Reporter, Second Series
Volume: 703
Pages: 1071–1076

Head Matter:
Robert Allen CASTERLINE, Appellant, v. STATE of Florida, Appellee.
No. 97-00981.
District Court of Appeal of Florida, Second District. .
Oct. 3, 1997.
Rehearing Denied Oct. 29, 1997.

Opinion:
PER CURIAM.
Robert Casterline appeals the summary denial of his motion for postconviction relief in which he asserted that the trial court wrongfully revoked his probation in 1996 based upon a 1991 order which enhanced the conditions of his probation. We agree that the 1991 order is void because Casterline had not violated the terms of his probation. The court had no authority to change or enhance the terms of probation originally imposed in 1984.
In 1984, Casterline entered a plea of guilty to two counts of sexual performance by a child and was sentenced to 10 years' imprisonment followed by 15 years' probation. On July 10, 1991, an affidavit of violation of probation was filed which stated that Caster-line was arrested for aggravated assault with a knife sharpener upon a minor. It was alleged that he had also violated the provisions of his probation because he had been instructed by his probation officer not to have contact with any minor children. On August 8, 1991, the court conducted a hearing and concluded that there had been no violation of probation.
At the conclusion of the hearing, defense counsel requested that Casterline be released on his own recognizance pending the criminal trial for the alleged aggravated assault. Although the state had no objection to Caster-line's release, it requested that the terms of his probation be changed to prohibit contact with minors. Defense counsel objected and stated that the matter should be set for a hearing before the court at another time; however, he capitulated when the court indicated that it intended to schedule the hearing on the request for release at a future date. Counsel stated, "Judge, let me state this. Because my client needs to get out of jail, he needs to go to work, and he has previously told me that if the Court so desires to inform [sic] such a condition, that he would have no objections to it." The court noted, "So, it would be without objection by your client to modify the probation to require that he have no contact with minor children, that is anyone under the age of eighteen, without the presence of another responsible adult."
On August 8,1991, an order entitled "Corrected Order of Modification of Probation" was entered which erroneously stated that Casterline had violated the terms and conditions of his probation. Further, the order required the conditions of probation to be modified to include the provision that Caster-line have no unsupervised contact with children under the age of eighteen. Casterline's probation was revoked on April 27, 1995, and on March 29,1996, for violating the condition which prohibited contact with children. On April 27, 1995, Casterline admitted that he had contact with a teenage boy in the hallway of the county courthouse. On March 29, 1996, Casterline admitted that he had verbal •contact with two boys aged ten and fourteen when he inquired if they had seen his lost cat.
The court's imposition of the new condition of probation in 1991 is clearly an enhancement of the conditions imposed in 1984. The original conditions of probation are standard and did not include any provision relating to children or which arguably could be modified to include this prohibition. While it is true that the trial court has the right to rescind or modify terms and conditions of probation at any time pursuant to section 948.01(5), Florida Statutes (1991), "[a]bsent proof of a violation, the court cannot change an order of probation by enhancing the terms." Lippman v. State, 633 So.2d 1061, 1064 (Fla.1994); Clark v. State, 579 So.2d 109, 110 (Fla.1991); Martin v. State, 691 So.2d 1204 (Fla. 4th DCA 1997).
Probation is a sentence in Florida and the double jeopardy provision includes protection against enhancements or extensions of conditions of probation. Lippman, 633 So.2d at 1064. Even when a non-violating probationer agrees to the enhancement of the terms of probation, he is not estopped from raising the double jeopardy infringement. See Clark, 579 So.2d at 110; Waldon v. State, 670 So.2d 1155, 1159-60 (Fla. 4th DCA 1996).
Casterline did not appeal the 1991 order which enhanced the conditions of his probation, nor did he appeal the 1995 and 1996 orders which revoked the probation. However, Casterline is not precluded from raising the issue at this time. In Lippman the supreme court held that the challenge to the improper enhancement of the terms of probation can be raised in a motion for post-conviction relief. Id., 633 So.2d at 1064-65. The prohibition against double jeopardy which is involved in these instances has not been waived by the failure to raise this issue on appeal of the original imposition of the condition or by failure to appeal the subsequent revocation of probation. Id.
In the present ease, as in Delancey v. State, 653 So.2d 1062 (Fla. 4th DCA 1995), the court found no violation of probation in 1991, yet proceeded to enhance the defendant's probation. "This violated the double jeopardy prohibition against multiple punishments for the same offense. Thus, the order modifying probation must be vacated." Id., 633 So.2d at 1064. As Casterline had not violated his probation in 1991, the court improperly enhanced the conditions of probation and the subsequent violations of the enhanced condition in 1995 and 1996 were a nullity.
Accordingly, the order denying the motion for postconviction relief is reversed. The Corrected Order Modifying Probation dated August 8,1991, is hereby vacated. Additionally, the orders revoking probation dated April 27, 1995, and March 29, 1996, and the judgment and sentence entered March 29, 1996, also are vacated. This matter is remanded to the trial court for further proceedings in accordance with this opinion.
Reversed and remanded with instructions.
PATTERSON and LAZZARA, JJ., concur.
SCHOONOVER, A.C.J., dissents with opinion.
. The probation officer's instruction could not form the basis to revoke Casterline's probation because it was a unilateral condition imposed by the officer which was not set forth in the sentencing order. See Waldon v. State, 670 So.2d 1155 (Fla. 4th DCA 1996).
. This order does not comport with the trial court's oral pronouncement that Casterline had not violated the terms and conditions of his probation.