Case Name: Antonio FERNANDEZ, Appellant, v. STATE of Florida, Appellee
Court: Florida District Court of Appeal
Jurisdiction: Florida
Decision Date: 2016-06-22
Citations: 194 So. 3d 547
Docket Number: No. 2D15-2094
Parties: Antonio FERNANDEZ, Appellant, v. STATE of Florida, Appellee.
Judges: CASANUEVA, KELLY, and SLEET, JJ., Concur.
Reporter: Southern Reporter, Third Series
Volume: 194
Pages: 547–548

Head Matter:
Antonio FERNANDEZ, Appellant, v. STATE of Florida, Appellee.
No. 2D15-2094.
District Court of Appeal of Florida, Second District.
June 22, 2016.

Opinion:
PER CURIAM.
Antonio Fernandez appeals the postcon-viction court's order summarily denying his motion for jail credit filed under Florida Rule of Criminal Procedure 3.801. Because Fernandez is entitled to jail credit in case number '2014-CF-241 for the time he spent in jail from the date 'of his arrest for failure to appear in case number 2013-CF-2199, we reverse.
Fernandez claimed entitlement to additional jail credit in case, number 2014-CF-241, in which he was charged with . failure to appear for proceedings in case number 2013-CF-2199. He asserted that he was' awarded jail credit only from the date that the information was filed in the. 2014'case, January 22, 2014, until the date of sentencing, September .26, 2014, in spite of the fact that he was actually arrested for failure to appear on December 13, 2013. The posteonviction court denied Fernandez's claim for additional credit, interpreting it as a claim for additional jail credit in both the 2013 and 2014 cases. To the extent that the postconviction court's. order denied Fernandez's claim for additional jail credit in the 2013 case, we affirm without further discussion. However, we must reverse the postconviction .court's order to the extent that it summarily denied. Fernandez's claim for additional jail credit in case number. 2014-CF-241.
The attachments to the postcon-viction court's order indicate that the 248 days of credit awarded at Fernandez's sentencing in case number 2014-GF-241 include jail time served from January 22, 2014, which appears to be the date on which the information was filed on. the failure to appear charge, until his sentencing on -September 26, 2014. But as this court has explained, failure to appear is an unusual offense because the single act is both an act of contempt in the pending case and a separate criminal offense. See Bronk v. State, 25 So.3d 701, 703 (Fla. 2d DCA 2010).. An arrest on a bench warrant or. capias in a pending case is also the initial arrest for a consequential .failure to appear charge. Id.; see also Lee v. State, 890 So.2d 1292, 1292 (Fla. 2d DCA 2005). As a .result, the arrest date, rather than the date on which the charge was officially filed, is the operative date for determining jail credit. The custody and bond status reports attached to the postconviction court's order indicate that Fernandez was arrested on December 13, 2013, following his failure to appear in case number 2013-CF-2199. Thus, the limited postconviction record supports Fernandez's assertion that he was actually arrested for the new charge of failure to appear in case number 2Q14-CF-241 on December 13, 2013, forty days before the date the information was allegedly filed.
Because the attachments to the postcon-viction court's order do not conclusively refute Fernandez's claim that he was arr rested for his failure to appear on December 13, 2013, and that he is therefore entitled to credit .in case number 2014-CF-241 for jail time served from that date until sentencing — a total of 288 days — we reverse and remand for the postconviction court to award the additional jail credit.
Reversed and remanded,
CASANUEVA, KELLY, and SLEET, JJ., Concur.
. The information for case number 2014-CF-241-was not included in the postconviction court's attachments.