Byron Dames v. State of Florida

Appellant Byron Dames pled no contest to a charge of child abuse and was given a sentence of one year in the county jail, followed by four years of community control/probation with sex-offender conditions. In return for the plea, the State dropped a charge of lewd or lascivious battery. Upon his release from custody, Appellant engaged in behavior that led to three charges of Violation of Probation (VOP). Following the third report of VOP, Appellant came before the trial court, admitted to the violation and entered an open plea. He was sentenced to nearly eighty months in prison. It is the…