Court Opinion

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Date Created: 2023-11-27 16:20:17.344621+00
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IN THE DISTRICT COURT OF APPEAL OF THE STATE OF FLORIDA
                      FIFTH DISTRICT

                                   NOT FINAL UNTIL TIME EXPIRES TO
                                   FILE MOTION FOR REHEARING AND
                                   DISPOSITION THEREOF IF FILED

DONNA MARIE FONSECA,

            Appellant,

v.                                      Case No.    5D21-2479
                                        LT Case No. 2021-CF-000988-A

STATE OF FLORIDA,

            Appellee.

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Opinion filed September 16, 2022

Appeal from the Circuit Court
for Citrus County,
Richard A. Howard, Judge.

Matthew J. Metz, Public Defender,
and Kathryn Rollison Radtke,
Assistant Public Defender, Daytona
Beach, for Appellant.

Ashley Moody, Attorney General,
Tallahassee, and Bonnie Jean Parrish,
Assistant Attorney General, Daytona
Beach, for Appellee.

PER CURIAM.
      In this Anders appeal, we affirm Fonseca's judgment and sentence.

Fonseca had filed a timely motion pursuant to Florida Rule of Criminal

Procedure 3.800(b)(2) to correct a sentence, which imposed a sentence of

three years in prison for two counts in 2021-CF-988-A. That was in fact the

sentence orally announced by the court following acceptance of the plea.

However, count 2 of that information was a misdemeanor punishable by only

up to one year in the county jail.

      A hearing was held on Fonseca's motion, and the trial court orally

granted that motion.1 However, it appears that no amended judgment and

sentence was entered. Therefore, as requested by Fonseca in her second

motion to correct sentencing error, we remand for the trial court to enter a

formal amended written judgment and sentence nunc pro tunc to September

20, 2021, to resolve the conflict in the two written judgments. See Lopez-

Vasquez v. State, 966 So. 2d 996, 997 (Fla. 5th DCA 2007) (affirming

conviction and sentence in Anders appeal but remanding for entry of an

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         One judgment and sentence seems to reflect the court's attempt to
sentence Fonseca to three years in the Department of Corrections on what
by process of elimination would be count 1, with time served on count 2. A
second judgment and sentence, entered the same day, reflects only a
sentence on the felony Possession of Methamphetamine count. It appears
that at the hearing on the motion to correct sentence the State, defense, and
court recognized an error in the paperwork and attempted to correct same.

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amended judgment). On remand, the trial court is also directed to correct

Fonseca's scoresheet if necessary.

     AFFIRMED and REMANDED with Instructions.

COHEN, WALLIS and NARDELLA, JJ., concur.

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