State v. Nazario

The state appeals from the circuit court’s order placing the defendant on eighteen months of “administrative probation” immediately following her no contest plea to grand theft and the court’s withholding of adjudication. The state argues that the Department of Corrections, and not the court, is charged with transferring a defendant to administrative probation. We agree with the state and reverse.

“Probation is a creature of statute; thus, in imposing a probationary sentence, courts are limited to the authority given them by the relevant statutes.” State v. Coleman, 44 So.3d 1198, 1200 (Fla.…