Opinion
No. 5D13–308.
2014-02-28
Terry L. POTTS, Appellant, v. STATE of Florida, Appellee.
Appeal from the Circuit Court, for Citrus County, Richard A. Howard, Judge. James S. Purdy, Public Defender, and Kevin Holtz, Assistant Public Defender, Daytona Beach, for Appellant. Pamela Jo Bondi, Attorney General, Tallahassee, and Kaylee D. Tatman, Assistant Attorney General, Daytona Beach, for Appellee.
Appeal from the Circuit Court, for Citrus County, Richard A. Howard, Judge.
James S. Purdy, Public Defender, and Kevin Holtz, Assistant Public Defender, Daytona Beach, for Appellant. Pamela Jo Bondi, Attorney General, Tallahassee, and Kaylee D. Tatman, Assistant Attorney General, Daytona Beach, for Appellee.
WALLIS, J.
Appellant appeals the lower court's revocation of his probation and suspended sentence. At sentencing, the lower court suspended Appellant's eighteen-month prison sentence on the condition that he complete two years' probation. Later, the lower court improperly amended Appellant's probation by adding the requirement that he successfully complete a drug treatment program and subsequently revoked his suspended sentence for failure to complete the program. The probation condition requiring drug treatment was not imposed in the original sentence. The State concedes error because Appellant's due process rights were violated. He did not receive a properly noticed hearing regarding the added condition of probation. § 948.06, Fla. Stat. (2012); Clark v. State, 579 So.2d 109 (Fla.1991).
We reverse the revocation of probation and remand with instructions to reinstate Appellant to the term of probation and conditions originally ordered.
REVERSED and REMANDED with INSTRUCTIONS. PALMER and COHEN, JJ., concur.