Legal Opinion

Smith v. State

District Court of Appeal of Florida

Decided January 2, 1997No. 95-4431PublishedCited by 2 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

SHAHOOD, Judge.

We vacate appellant’s sentence and remand for resentencing because of an error in the sentencing guidelines scoresheet. With a corrected scoresheet, appellant’s guidelines sentence would be one cell lower. As stated in Sellers v. State, 578 So.2d 339, 341 (Fla. 1st DCA), approved by, 586 So.2d 340 (Fla.1991), “when the deletion of improperly included points in the guidelines score results in a reduction of one or more cells, the sentence should be vacated and the cause remanded for resentencing upon a properly calculated scoresheet.” See also Shabazz v. State, 674 So.2d 920…

2Cases cited3 opinions

  1. Sellers v. StateDistrict Court of Appeal of Florida · 1991
  2. State v. SellersSupreme Court of Florida · 1991
  3. Shabazz v. StateDistrict Court of Appeal of Florida · 1996

3Cited by2 opinions

  1. Tsutras v. DuheDistrict Court of Appeal of Florida · 1997
  2. Val v. StateDistrict Court of Appeal of Florida · 1999

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