State of Florida v. Toni Marie Sawyer

The State challenges the sentence imposed on Toni Marie Sawyer, the Appellee, following her no contest plea to sale of a controlled substance. Appellee was sentenced to 48 months, but that sentence was suspended. She was then placed on community control to be followed by probation. Given her Criminal Punishment Code (CPC) scoresheet, the lowest permissible sentence was 39 months imprisonment. Thus, the suspended sentence was a .downward departure sentence. See State v. Robinson, 138 So.3d 1225 (Fla. 1st DCA 2014).

In its written order, the trial court gave the following reasons for the…