Case Name: Fernando F. ALEMAN, Appellant, v. STATE of Florida, Appellee
Court: Florida District Court of Appeal
Jurisdiction: Florida
Decision Date: 1988-12-16
Citations: 535 So. 2d 342
Docket Number: No. 87-857
Parties: Fernando F. ALEMAN, Appellant, v. STATE of Florida, Appellee.
Judges: THREADGILL and PARKER, JJ., concur.
Reporter: Southern Reporter, Second Series
Volume: 535
Pages: 342–343

Head Matter:
Fernando F. ALEMAN, Appellant, v. STATE of Florida, Appellee.
No. 87-857.
District Court of Appeal of Florida, Second District.
Dec. 16, 1988.
James Marion Moorman, Public Defender, and Laura Griffin, Asst. Public Defender, Bartow, for appellant.
Robert A. Butterworth, Atty. Gen., Tallahassee, and Robert J. Landry, Asst. Atty. Gen., for appellee.

Opinion:
FRANK, Acting Chief Judge.
Aleman, who was convicted of and sentenced for sexual battery and burglary of a dwelling, presents two issues on appeal. The first, that he was incompetent to be sentenced, is without merit. The second, that the judge erroneously scored his prior record, requires reversal of his sentence.
Aleman had been convicted in Texas of burglary of a habitation, a first degree felony under that state's law. The parallel Florida Statute — burglary of a dwelling — is a second degree felony. Hence, the prior conviction should have been entered as a second degree felony on the scoresheet. Rule 3.701(d)(5), Fla.R.Crim.P. The trial court, however, erroneously imported some factual considerations into the conviction, i.e., that the victim had been kidnapped, the basis for which was a count of the Texas indictment that had been dismissed. Thus he scored the burglary conviction as a first degree felony, which was patent error because the charge which might have elevated the felony from second to first degree in Florida had been dismissed.
Accordingly, we affirm the defendant's conviction but reverse the sentence and remand for resentencing under a properly prepared guidelines scoresheet.
THREADGILL and PARKER, JJ., concur.