State v. West

W. SHARP, Judge.

The state appeals a downward departure sentence imposed on West. While on probation, after having been convicted of two counts of robbery with a deadly weapon and one count of attempted robbery with a firearm, West was found to have violated his probation and was sentenced to six months of community control, followed by five years probation. Although there may have been reasons for the downward departure sentence,1 the trial court gave no written reasons and articulated none at the sentencing hearing.2

We have no choice in this ease but to reverse and remand for imposition of a…