Opinion
No. 91-1354.
May 13, 1992.
Appeal from the Circuit Court for Broward County; William P. Dimitrouleas, Judge.
Richard L. Jorandby, Public Defender, and Barbara J. Wolfe, Asst. Public Defender, West Palm Beach, for appellant.
Robert A. Butterworth, Atty. Gen., Tallahassee, and Michelle Smith, Asst. Atty. Gen., West Palm Beach, for appellee.
AFFIRMED.
HERSEY and DELL, JJ., concur.
ANSTEAD, J., dissents in part with opinion.
I concur in the majority's affirmance of appellant's conviction but disagree as to the resolution of the sentencing issue. Under Rule 3.710 of the Fla.R.Crim.P., the appellant, as a first time offender, was entitled to the benefit of a presentence investigation (PSI) report before sentencing. Appellant received a sentence of five and one-half years, the top of the permitted guidelines range. The sentence included a minimum mandatory three year term because of the involvement of illegal drugs. A committee note to Rule 3.710 recognizes that no PSI is necessary if the "specific sentence" imposed is mandatory. The specific sentence here is five and one-half years and is not mandatory. While a three year sentence was mandatory and would have obviated the need for a PSI, I don't believe we can follow the note's reasoning here where a sentence almost twice the length of the mandatory sentence is imposed.