Court Opinion

ID: 4300759
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2018-08-03 13:05:11.3089+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T13:59:00.504684
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FIRST DISTRICT COURT OF APPEAL
                STATE OF FLORIDA
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                         No. 1D16-3735
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TLACEY AL RANDALL,

    Appellant,

    v.

STATE OF FLORIDA,

    Appellee.
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On appeal from the Circuit Court for Escambia County.
Thomas V. Dannheisser, Judge.

                         August 3, 2018

PER CURIAM.

    Tlacey Randall was found guilty by a jury of possession of
marijuana and possession of cocaine (as a lesser-included offense
of trafficking cocaine), and acquitted of possession of drug
paraphernalia. The trial court sentenced Randall to the
maximum sentence of five years in prison for possessing cocaine.
Under the facts presented, we agree with Randall that the trial
court sentenced him improperly, by relying partly on the premise
that he was trafficking cocaine at the time of the offense, a
charge for which he had been acquitted. See Drinkard v. State,
177 So. 3d 993 (Fla. 1st DCA 2015). We also agree that the trial
court improperly relied on certain uncharged criminal activity in
imposing sentence. See Mosley v. State, 198 So. 3d 58 (Fla. 2d
DCA 2015). Accordingly, we REVERSE Randall’s sentence and
REMAND for sentencing before a different judge.

WOLF, WINOKUR, and JAY, JJ., concur.
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    Not final until disposition of any timely and
    authorized motion under Fla. R. App. P. 9.330 or
    9.331.
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Jason Cromey of Cromey Law, P.A., Pensacola, for Appellant.

Pamela Jo Bondi, Attorney General, and Sharon Traxler,
Assistant Attorney General, Tallahassee, for Appellee.

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