Opinion ID: 2534752
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Text: In August 2004, Robert Ransone was convicted of grand theft and sentenced to one year of community control followed by three years' probation in Broward County. Ransone, 20 So.3d at 446. In October 2004, a warrant for violation of community control was issued. Id. at 446-47. In December 2004, Ransone was arrested in Miami-Dade County on several charges unrelated to the Broward convictions and warrant and, according to Ransone, was also arrested on the Broward warrant. Id. at 447. He remained incarcerated in a Miami-Dade jail and was ultimately found guilty of the Miami-Dade charges, sentenced to time served for those offenses, and transported to a Broward jail to face the Broward County charges. Id. In June 2006, the Broward County trial court revoked Ransone's community control and sentenced him to five years in prison with credit for 84 days spent in jail before his Broward sentencing but after his sentencing in Miami-Dade. Id. The trial court did not direct that this sentence would be concurrent with any other sentence. Id. And the trial court stated an express desire that Ransone not receive credit toward the Broward offense for the time spent in jail on the unrelated Miami-Dade charges. Id. Ransone argued on appeal to the Fourth District that he was entitled to jail-time credit from the date he was arrested on the Broward warrant while incarcerated in Miami-Dade. Id. The Fourth District determined that Ransone was not entitled to additional credit because the Broward sentence was consecutive to the Miami-Dade sentences, explaining that the two cases were unrelated and that the trial court sentencing Ransone on the Broward charges did not indicate that the sentence would be concurrent with any other sentence. Id. (citing § 921.16(1), Fla. Stat. (2004)). The Fourth District relied on this Court's decision in Daniels v. State, 491 So.2d 543 (Fla.1986): Pursuant to Daniels, a defendant who is held on multiple offenses is entitled to jail credit from the date of arrest on a foreign county's warrant only where concurrent sentences are imposed or where the foreign county's warrant is the sole basis for the defendant's incarceration. Id. at 449. Therefore, the Fourth District concluded that Ransone was not entitled to additional credit in the Broward case and affirmed the trial court's decision. Id. at 447, 450. The Fourth District also certified conflict with the decision of the Third District Court of Appeal in Tharpe, which came to an opposite conclusion based on substantially similar facts. See id. at 448 (explaining conflict with Tharpe, 744 So.2d 1256).