Opinion
No. 96-2553.
April 1, 1998. Opinion Granting Rehearing May 27, 1998.
Appeal from the Circuit Court for the Nineteenth Judicial Circuit, Indian River County; Joe Wild, Judge; L.T. Case No. 96-009B.
Richard L. Jorandby, Public Defender, and Karen E. Ehrlich, Assistant Public Defender, West Palm Beach, for appellant.
Robert A. Butterworth, Attorney General, Tallahassee, and Carol Cobourn Asbury, Assistant Attorney General, West Palm Beach, for appellee.
We affirm the convictions but remand to the trial court to delete the 10 year probation provision in counts I, II and IV. The oral pronouncement of sentence limited probation to count III only. Martindale v. State, 678 So.2d 883 (Fla. 4th DCA 1996), and Davis v. State, 677 So.2d 1366 (Fla. 4th DCA 1996).
DELL and SHAHOOD, JJ., concur.
ON MOTION FOR REHEARING
FARMER, Judge.
It appearing that in affirming we overlooked relevant recent precedent from this court on defendant's issue as to the illegality of his sentence, we grant rehearing.
Defendant pleaded guilty to three felony counts under an agreement to be sentenced within the guidelines and without habitual felony offender treatment. One of the counts, count IV, was grand theft of an automobile, which is a third degree felony. The penalty statute for this third degree felony provides a maximum sentence of 5 years. His sentencing scoresheet, however, showed a recommended sentence of 212 months. The trial judge sentenced him to 265 months in prison on this count.
As we affirm on all other issues and the sentences on the other counts are not affected by this issue, we therefore leave them undisturbed.
See 775.082(3)(d), Fla. Stat. (1995).
We decided this issue in Myers v. State, 696 So.2d 893 (Fla. 4th DCA), rev. granted, 703 So.2d 477 (Fla. 1997). There we held that the court may not enhance a recommended sentence that already exceeds the maximum set by the penalty statute by a further extension within the guidelines range. Myers requires that we reverse the sentence in this case and remand with instructions to resentence defendant to the sentence recommended by the guidelines scoresheet. As we did in Myers, we certify conflict with Mays v. State, 693 So.2d 52 (Fla. 5th DCA), rev. granted, 700 So.2d 686 (Fla. 1997); Martinez v. State, 692 So.2d 199 (Fla. 3d DCA), rev. dismissed, 697 So.2d 1217 (Fla. 1997); and Green v. State, 691 So.2d 502 (Fla. 5th DCA), rev. granted, 699 So.2d 1373 (Fla. 1997); and with the subsequently issued decision in Floyd v. State, 707 So.2d 833 (Fla. 1st DCA 1998).
Defendant did not raise this issue in the trial court, but an illegal sentence within the meaning of Davis v. State, 661 So.2d 1193, 1196 (Fla. 1995) ("[A]n illegal sentence is one that exceeds the maximum period set forth by law for a particular offense without regard to the guidelines."), may be raised at any time, even for the first time on direct appeal.
REVERSED AND REMANDED FOR RESENTENCING ON COUNT IV TO RECOMMENDED SENTENCE UNDER GUIDELINES.
DELL and SHAHOOD, JJ., concur.