Case Name: Roger Dale GORDON, Appellant, v. STATE of Florida, Appellee
Court: Florida District Court of Appeal
Jurisdiction: Florida
Decision Date: 1987-08-27
Citations: 511 So. 2d 745
Docket Number: No. 86-2101
Parties: Roger Dale GORDON, Appellant, v. STATE of Florida, Appellee.
Judges: DAUKSCH and COWART, JJ., concur.
Reporter: Southern Reporter, Second Series
Volume: 511
Pages: 745–746

Head Matter:
Roger Dale GORDON, Appellant, v. STATE of Florida, Appellee.
No. 86-2101.
District Court of Appeal of Florida, Fifth District.
Aug. 27, 1987.
James B. Gibson, Public Defender, and Daniel J. Schafer, Asst. Public Defender, Daytona Beach, for appellant.
Robert A. Butterworth, Atty. Gen., Tallahassee, and Kevin Kitpatrick Carson, Asst. Atty. Gen., Daytona Beach, for appellee.

Opinion:
UPCHURCH, Chief Judge.
Gordon pleaded guilty to two charges of delivery of cocaine and one charge of possession of cannabis. He was sentenced to thirty months incarceration followed by twenty-four months community control on the two delivery charges, to be served concurrently. He was also sentenced to serve one hundred seven days incarceration with credit for the same amount of time on the possession charge.
On appeal, Gordon argues that that his sentences on the delivery charges were departure sentences and since no written reasons for departure appear in the record, the community control portion of the sentences should be stricken. Gordon candidly acknowledges that this argument has been rejected in Francis v. State, 487 So.2d 348 (Fla. 2d DCA 1986).
More recently, however, this court held that a sentence such as the one involved here is a departure sentence and, if no written reasons for departure appear in the record, the sentence must be vacated. See Hankey v. State, 505 So.2d 701 (Fla. 5th DCA 1987). In the present case, no written reasons for departure appear in the record and accordingly Gordon's sentences must be vacated and the cause remanded for resentencing.
JUDGMENT AFFIRMED; SENTENCES VACATED AND REMANDED.
DAUKSCH and COWART, JJ., concur.