Case Name: Frederick Alan TUCKER, Appellant, v. STATE of Florida, Appellee
Court: Florida District Court of Appeal
Jurisdiction: Florida
Decision Date: 1992-06-24
Citations: 601 So. 2d 1249
Docket Number: No. 91-02801
Parties: Frederick Alan TUCKER, Appellant, v. STATE of Florida, Appellee.
Judges: SCHOONOVER, C.J., and HALL and ALTENBERND, JJ., concur.
Reporter: Southern Reporter, Second Series
Volume: 601
Pages: 1249–1250

Head Matter:
Frederick Alan TUCKER, Appellant, v. STATE of Florida, Appellee.
No. 91-02801.
District Court of Appeal of Florida, Second District.
June 24, 1992.
James Marion Moorman, Public Defender, and Timothy J. Ferreri, Asst. Public Defender, Bartow, for appellant.
Robert A. Butterworth, Atty. Gen., Tallahassee, and Peggy A. Quince, Asst. Atty. Gen., Tampa, for appellee.

Opinion:
PER CURIAM.
Appellant challenges the order revoking his probation and the judgment and sentence entered on the offense for which he was placed on probation, battery on a law enforcement officer. Upon revocation of probation, appellant received a five-year prison sentence, the statutory maximum for a third-degree felony. The recommended range of the next higher cell was three and one-half to four and one-half years, and the permitted range was two and one-half years to five and one-half years. Because the battery was committed on December 7, 1987, before the effective date of the amendment to the guidelines establishing permitted ranges, permitted ranges do not apply to this sentence. See Watts v. State, 580 So.2d 899 (Fla. 2d DCA 1991).
Accordingly, we affirm the judgment and order revoking probation, but reverse the sentence and remand for sentencing within the recommended range of the guidelines.
SCHOONOVER, C.J., and HALL and ALTENBERND, JJ., concur.