Robinson v. State

A jury convicted appellant of two counts of resisting arrest with violence, one count of battery on a law enforcement officer, and one count of simple battery. The trial court ordered a fifteen-year sentence rather than the recommended guideline sentence of twelve to thirty months, but provided no accompanying written statement of the reasons for departure as required by Florida Rule of Criminal Procedure Rule 3.701(d)(11). Instead, it orally gave two reasons for the ordered departure sentence. Initially, on appeal, appellant claimed that because the court failed to issue written reasons for…