Court Opinion

ID: 9655489
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-23 19:12:11.498352+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T18:13:19.070034
License: Public Domain

QUINCE, C.J.,
concurring in result only.
Because the concept espoused by this Court in Evans v. Singletary, 737 So.2d 505 (Fla.1999), has proven to be unworkable, I agree with Justice Canady that we should recede from that decision. When a person is in fact in prison, it is unimaginable that his sentence or conditional release is somehow being tolled. Simply put: a person is either in prison serving time or he or she is not in prison. Instead of engaging in a fiction that the defendant’s conditional release time is being tolled while he is serving time in prison, as we said in Evans, we should acknowledge the fact that the defendant cannot get out of prison until he is eligible for release on the longest sentence (whether longer in length or because of mandatory time to be served). In such a situation, the defendant is in fact serving time on all of the sentences, and would be entitled to credit for time served should he or she violate conditional release in the future.