Case Name: Anthony ROBERTS, Petitioner, v. STATE of Florida, Respondent
Court: Florida Supreme Court
Jurisdiction: Florida
Decision Date: 1994-10-13
Citations: 644 So. 2d 81
Docket Number: No. 81182
Parties: Anthony ROBERTS, Petitioner, v. STATE of Florida, Respondent.
Judges: GRIMES, C.J., OVERTON, SHAW and HARDING, JJ., and McDONALD, Senior Justice, concur.
Reporter: Southern Reporter, Second Series
Volume: 644
Pages: 81–84

Head Matter:
Anthony ROBERTS, Petitioner, v. STATE of Florida, Respondent.
No. 81182.
Supreme Court of Florida.
Oct. 13, 1994.
Bennett H. Brummer, Public Defender and Louis Campbell, Asst. Public Defender, Miami, for petitioner.
Robert A. Butterworth, Atty. Gen. and Barbara Arlene Fink, Asst. Atty. Gen., Day-tona Beach, for respondent.

Opinion:
PER CURIAM.
We have for review Roberts v. State, 611 So.2d 58 (Fla. 3d DCA 1992), based on certified conflict with Graham v. State, 559 So.2d 343 (Fla. 4th DCA 1990), on the issue of whether, in resentencing a defendant after a revocation of probation, a court has authority to revise a guidelines scoresheet to include prior convictions that were mistakenly omitted from the original through no fault of the defendant. We have jurisdiction under article V, section 3(b)(4) of the Florida Constitution.
The facts of this case are undisputed. Roberts was found guilty of the sale of cocaine. The court sentenced him to a term of four years in prison followed by six years on probation. The court sentenced Roberts in accordance with the Sentencing Guidelines, Florida Rule of Criminal Procedure 3.701, based upon a scoresheet that was later found mistakenly to have omitted a number of prior convictions. There is no evidence that Roberts was in any way responsible for the inaccurate scoresheet.
Roberts served the confinement portion of his sentence. While serving the probationary portiop, an affidavit of violation of probation was filed alleging Roberts had been arrested for the offenses of possession of cocaine with intent to distribute and of possession of marijuana. His simultaneous trial and probation revocation hearing resulted in a misdemeanor conviction of attempted possession of cocaine and the revocation of his probation.
At sentencing, the court, over objection, used a revised scoresheet to resentence Roberts for the original offense. The revised scoresheet included the prior convictions that were absent from the original scoresheet. The resulting score led to a sentence that exceeded the maximum allowed one-cell increase per violation that is provided under Florida Rule of Criminal Procedure 3.701(d)(14). This sentence ran concurrently with a one-year sentence imposed for the misdemeanor of attempted possession of cocaine.
The Third District Court of Appeal affirmed Roberts' sentence. The court rejected Roberts' argument that under rule 3.701(d)(14) the trial judge could not revise the scoresheet to include the omitted prior convictions but was limited to increasing the guidelines range on the original scoresheet by one cell.
Three district courts of appeal have held that when resentencing a defendant after revocation of probation, a trial court cannot consider prior convictions that were omitted from the original scoresheet unless the omission was the result of an affirmative act by the defendant. Manuel v. State, 582 So.2d 823 (Fla. 2d DCA 1991); Harris v. State, 574 So.2d 1211 (Fla. 2d DCA), cause dismissed, 581 So.2d 1310 (Fla.1991); Pfeiffer v. State, 568 So.2d 530 (Fla. 1st DCA 1990); Graham v. State, 559 So.2d 343 (Fla. 4th DCA 1990). However, the Fifth District Court of Appeal recently relied on Roberts to hold that prior convictions omitted from the original score-sheet can be considered upon violation of probation. Scherwitz v. State, 618 So.2d 793 (Fla. 5th DCA), review granted, 629 So.2d 135 (Fla.1993).
When Roberts was originally sentenced, he received the benefit of a mistake in his guidelines scoresheet. Now that he has committed a new crime and violated his probation, we see no reason to perpetuate the error. Justice is not served by awarding a defendant something to which he is not entitled. We agree with the rationale of the opinion below in which the court said:
The defendant cites to Graham v. State, 559 So.2d 343 (Fla. 4th DCA 1990) for the proposition that a trial court is without power to consider a new scoresheet, over objection, containing prior convictions completely omitted from the original. The contention then is that the defendant be sentenced under a scoresheet that is simply not based upon the truth. Consequently, we do not agree with Graham because to follow it literally, the defendant receives the benefit of being sentenced under a scoresheet which mistakenly omits prior convictions. Neither the rules nor the substantive law justifies a defendant receiving the largesse of a judicial error. Since only one guidelines scoresheet may be used for each defendant covering all offenses pending before the court at sentencing, Fla.R.Crim.P. 3.701(d)(1); accord Lambert v. State, 545 So.2d 838, 841 (Fla.1989), following the defendant's argument permits him to escape the punishment meted out by the law.
Furthermore, since the defendant's violation of probation triggered the resen-tencing, the defendant is not being sentenced for "precisely the same conduct," and double jeopardy concerns do not come into play. State v. Payne, 404 So.2d 1055, 1058 (Fla.1981) (citing Williams v. Wain- might, 493 F.Supp. 153, 155-56 (S.D.Fla.1980).
Roberts, 611 So.2d at 59.
We approve the decision below and disapprove Manuel, Harris, Pfeiffer, and Graham to the extent that they conflict with this opinion.
It is so ordered.
GRIMES, C.J., OVERTON, SHAW and HARDING, JJ., and McDONALD, Senior Justice, concur.
KOGAN, J., dissents with an opinion.