Trueblood v. State

Steven Lopez Trueblood has appealed from a sentence imposed after he pled nolo contendere to escape from a Department of Health and Rehabilitative Services (HRS) detention facility. We reverse and remand for resentencing.

Trueblood, a juvenile, tendered a plea of nolo contendere to a charge that he, “while a prisoner in the lawful custody of HRS Detention Facility, did then and there escape from such lawful confinement, contrary to Section 944.40, Florida Statutes.” Section 944.40 makes it a second-degree felony for a “prisoner” to escape from “any prison, jail, road camp, or other penal…