State v. Cousins

The State of Florida petitions this court for a writ of certiorari. We grant the writ and quash the trial court’s order which modified the completed criminal sentence of the respondent, Yvonne Cousins, to reflect a withhold of adjudication.

The trial court’s order was entered following a hearing on a letter it received from Cousins, which the court treated as a motion. In the letter, Cousins requested that her criminal history records be expunged or sealed. She explained that there were extenuating circumstances surrounding her conviction and that she had not been in trouble in the ten years…