Case Name: Raymond ALLENDE, Appellant, v. STATE of Florida, Appellee
Court: Florida District Court of Appeal
Jurisdiction: Florida
Decision Date: 2004-09-17
Citations: 882 So. 2d 472
Docket Number: No. 5D03-2101
Parties: Raymond ALLENDE, Appellant, v. STATE of Florida, Appellee.
Judges: PETERSON and TORPY, JJ., concur.
Reporter: Southern Reporter, Second Series
Volume: 882
Pages: 472–476

Head Matter:
Raymond ALLENDE, Appellant, v. STATE of Florida, Appellee.
No. 5D03-2101.
District Court of Appeal of Florida, Fifth District.
Sept. 17, 2004.
Ricardo R. Pesquera, Orlando, for Appellant.
Charles J. Crist, Jr., Attorney General, Tallahassee, and Rebecca Rock McGuigan, Assistant Attorney General, Daytona Beach, for Appellee. •

Opinion:
PER CURIAM.
In this direct appeal, Raymond Allende argues that the twenty-five-year sentence imposed by the trial judge following his conviction of trafficking in cocaine in excess of 200 grams was vindictive. He contends that the trial judge punished him with an enhanced sentence for proceeding to trial, rather than accepting the State's plea offer of seven years in prison.
Allende failed to raise this issue in the trial court as required by Florida Rule of Criminal Procedure 3.800(b). Consequently, he cannot raise it for the first time on direct appeal. While conceding that the issue was not preserved in the trial court, Allende contends that a vindictive sentence constitutes fundamental error that can be raised for the first time on appeal. We disagree. "[F]or defendants whose initial briefs were filed after the effective date of rule 3.800(b)(2)[ ], the failure to preserve a fundamental sentencing error by motion under rule 3.800(b) or by objection during the sentencing hearing forecloses them from raising the error on direct appeal." Brannon v. State, 850 So.2d 452, 456 (Fla.2003).
Our supreme court made clear in Amendments to Florida Rules of Criminal Procedure 3.111(e) & 3.800 & Florida Rules of Appellate Procedure 9.020(h), 9.140, & 9.600, 761 So.2d 1015 (Fla.2000) (hereafter Amendments IT), that Rule 3.800(b) must be used to preserve both fundamental and non-fundamental sentencing errors.
[T]he amended rule is intended to provide one mechanism whereby all sentencing errors may be preserved for appellate review.... The amendment to rule 3.800(a) will make it clear that a rule 3.800(b) motion can be used to correct any type of sentencing error, whether we had formerly called that error erroneous, unlawful or illegal.
Brannon, 850 So.2d at 458-59 (quoting Amendments II, 761 So.2d at 1019) (emphasis supplied).
Our conclusion that Allende's alleged sentencing error must first be presented below is buttressed by Florida Rule of Appellate Procedure 9.140(e), which provides:
A sentencing error may not be raised on appeal unless the alleged error has first been brought to the attention of the lower tribunal: (1) at the time of sentence; or (2) by motion pursuant to Florida Rule of Criminal Procedure 3.800(b).
Because Allende failed to preserve the issue for appellate review, we affirm.
AFFIRMED.
PETERSON and TORPY, JJ., concur.
ORFINGER, J.,, concurs and concurs specially, with opinion, in which TORPY, J., concurs.
. § 893.135(l)(b), Fla- Stat. (2002).
. Rule 3.800(b)(2) provides, in relevant part:
(b) Motion to Correct Sentencing Error. A motion to correct any sentencing error, including an illegal sentence, may be filed as allowed by this subdivision.... The motion must identify the error with specificity and provide a proposed correction. A response to the motion may be filed within 15 days, either admitting or contesting the alleged error. Motions may be filed by the state under this subdivision only if the correction of the sentencing error would benefit the defendant or to correct a scrivener's error.
(2) Motion Pending Appeal. If an appeal is pending, a defendant or the state may file in the trial court a motion to correct a sentencing error. The motion may be filed by appellate counsel and must be served before the party's first brief is served. A notice of pending motion to correct sentencing error shall be filed in the appellate court, which notice automatically shall extend the time for the filing of the brief until 10 days after the clerk of circuit court transmits the supplemental record under Florida Rule of Appellate Procedure 9.140(e)(6).
(A) The motion shall be served on the trial court and on all trial and appellate counsel of record. Unless the motion expressly states that appellate counsel will represent the movant in the trial court, trial counsel will represent the movant on the motion under Florida Rule of Appellate Procedure 9.140(b)(5). If the state is the movant, trial counsel will represent the defendant unless appellate counsel for the defendant notifies trial counsel and the trial court that he or she will represent the defendant on the state's motion.
. We express no opinion regarding Allende's ability to raise the alleged vindictive sentencing error in appropriate postconviction proceedings.