Court Opinion

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Date Created: 2021-01-27 16:03:44.992816+00
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DISTRICT COURT OF APPEAL OF THE STATE OF FLORIDA
                                 FOURTH DISTRICT

                          CHARLES MARIE WITHAM,
                                Appellant,

                                         v.

                              STATE OF FLORIDA,
                                   Appellee.

                                  No. 4D20-765

                               [January 27, 2021]

  Appeal from the Circuit Court for the Nineteenth Judicial Circuit, St.
Lucie County; Charles A. Schwab, Judge; L.T. Case No.
562010CF0003756A.

   Carey Haughwout, Public Defender, and Robert Porter, Assistant Public
Defender, West Palm Beach, for appellant.

   Ashley Moody, Attorney General, Tallahassee, and Kimberly T. Acuña,
Assistant Attorney General, West Palm Beach, for appellee.

WARNER, J.

   We affirm the final judgment of conviction and sentence of appellant,
based upon a plea agreement. We remand, however, to re-enter the written
order revoking probation which was filed after the record on appeal was
transferred to this court. As such, the trial court did not have jurisdiction
to enter the order. See Fla. R. App. P. 9.600(a); cf., Escobar v. State, 189
So. 3d 1029, 1031 (Fla. 4th DCA 2016) (trial court has jurisdiction to
reduce oral pronouncement to written order after notice of appeal is filed
and until record on appeal is transmitted). Here, the court orally
pronounced the revocation but did not enter a written order until after the
record was transmitted by the clerk. 1 In addition, it appears that duplicate

1 The clerk appears to have been quick in transmitting the record. The appeal

was filed on March 18, 2020, and the record was transmitted to this court on
March 24, 2020. The Florida Rules of Appellate Procedure provide that the record
shall be prepared and served within fifty days of the filing of the notice of appeal.
Fla. R. App. P. 9.140(f)(1). The rules do not preclude the early filing of the record,
final judgments were entered. On remand, the court should also strike
one of these judgments.

   Affirmed and remanded for entry of order revoking probation.

CONNER and FORST, JJ., concur.

                             *         *         *

   Not final until disposition of timely filed motion for rehearing.

but this cuts off the trial court’s concurrent jurisdiction to enter ministerial
orders. See Fla. R. App. P. 9.600(a).

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