Brown v. State

1 Citing case

  1. Turner v. State

    261 So. 3d 729 (Fla. Dist. Ct. App. 2018)   Cited 5 times
    In Turner, the defendant admitted to each of the alleged VOPs, which included several technical violations and several new law violations.

    One of our sister districts has determined that, even in the absence of the submission of evidence of a pending charge, reversal of a defendant's sentence is required "when the court repeatedly emphasized the charged conduct during the sentencing hearing, indicated that it believed the conduct occurred, and appeared to rely on the conduct, in part, to justify the sentence." Brown v. State, 225 So.3d 947, 948 (Fla. 5th DCA 2017).Mr. Turner contends that because he admitted to the violations, "there was no evidentiary hearing held to prove the new law violations by ‘the greater weight of the evidence.