State v. Curtis

The majority claims that the prison sentence must have been part of the community-control sanction. I fail to see that something that walks like a duck, talks like a duck, and acts like a duck can be called a chicken to fit it into a statutory scheme that no longer permits ducks. What we really have here is a throwback to the way things used to be. The only way I can interpret what the trial court did is to regard the eleven-month sentence the court “imposed” as simply a notice to Curtis that she would receive that sentence if she violated community control. Thus, the trial court specifically…