Court Opinion

ID: 4153914
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2017-03-20 14:06:13.043465+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T09:20:59.882137
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IN THE DISTRICT COURT OF APPEAL
                                     FIRST DISTRICT, STATE OF FLORIDA

BARBARA LYNNE                        NOT FINAL UNTIL TIME EXPIRES TO
MCDOWELL,                            FILE MOTION FOR REHEARING AND
                                     DISPOSITION THEREOF IF FILED
      Appellant,
                                     CASE NO. 1D16-3227
v.

STATE OF FLORIDA,

      Appellee.

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Opinion filed March 7, 2017.

An appeal from the Circuit Court for Nassau County.
Robert M. Foster, Judge.

William Mallory Kent, Jacksonville, for Appellant.

Pamela Jo Bondi, Attorney General and Anne C. Conley, Assistant Attorney
General, Tallahassee, for Appellee.

PER CURIAM.

      Appellant challenges her fifteen-year prison sentence for DUI manslaughter.

She argues that the trial court committed fundamental error in suggesting that her
sentence may have been different had she cooperated and admitted guilt at an earlier

stage of the case. The State appropriately concedes that Appellant is entitled to relief.

Accordingly, we VACATE the sentence and REMAND with instructions for

Appellant to be resentenced before a different judge. See Dumas v. State, 134 So.

3d 1048, 1048 (Fla. 1st DCA 2013); Ritter v. State, 885 So. 2d 413, 414-15 (Fla. 1st

DCA 2004).

MAKAR and WINSOR, JJ., and BROWN, JOHN T., ASSOCIATE JUDGE,
CONCUR.

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