Jesus Cabrera - Toledo v. State of Florida
CourtDistrict Court of Appeal of Florida
Date FiledJune 11, 2021
Docket2D19-0881
StatusPublished
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DISTRICT COURT OF APPEAL OF FLORIDA
SECOND DISTRICT
JESUS CABRERA-TOLEDO,
Appellant,
v.
STATE OF FLORIDA,
Appellee.
No. 2D19-881
June 11, 2021
Appeal from the Circuit Court for Lee County; Mark Steinbeck,
Senior Judge.
Howard L. Dimmig, II, Public Defender, and Ama N. Appiah, Special
Assistant Public Defender, Bartow, for Appellant.
Ashley Moody, Attorney General, Tallahassee, and Katherine
Coombs Cline, Assistant Attorney General, Tampa, for Appellee.
ATKINSON, Judge.
Jesus Cabrera-Toledo appeals his judgment and sentence for
battery and attempted unlawful sexual activity. We affirm the
judgment and sentence imposed without comment. However,
because the written sentence differed from the trial court's oral
pronouncement of the sentence, we reverse and remand for entry of
a corrected written sentence.
Following a jury trial, Cabrera-Toledo was found guilty of
battery and attempted unlawful sexual activity. At the sentencing
hearing, the trial court sentenced Cabrera-Toledo to 364 days in jail
for battery and 4 years of imprisonment followed by 1 year of sex
offender probation for attempted unlawful sexual activity with credit
for 611 days of time served. The trial court stated in its oral
pronouncement that the terms of imprisonment for the two counts
would be served concurrently. Subsequently, the trial court entered
a written judgment and sentence. The written sentence matched
the trial court's oral pronouncement except that it did not specify
that Cabrera-Toledo's sentences for battery and attempted unlawful
sexual activity were to be served concurrently.1 Cabrera-Toledo
1 Cabrera-Toledo also points out that the written order of sex
offender probation does not reflect the sentence for the battery
charge. However, the order of sex offender probation is consistent
with the trial court's oral pronouncement of the sentence because
the trial court did not sentence Cabrera-Toledo to sex offender
probation for the simple battery charge. As such, the order of sex
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filed a motion to correct sentencing error pursuant to Florida Rule
of Criminal Procedure 3.800. The trial court did not rule on the
motion within sixty days; therefore, the motion is deemed denied.
See Fla. R. Crim. P. 3.800(b)(2)(B).
"A trial court's written sentence must conform to its oral
pronouncement; when the two differ, that constitutes reversible
error." Gay v. State, 193 So. 3d 1069, 1070 (Fla. 2d DCA 2016)
(citing Rivera v. State, 34 So. 3d 207, 208 (Fla. 2d DCA 2010)).
Because the trial court's oral pronouncement differs from the
written sentence as to whether Cabrera-Toledo's sentences run
concurrently, we reverse and remand for the trial court to amend
the written sentence to conform to its oral pronouncement of the
sentence. See id. In all other respects, we affirm.
Affirmed in part, reversed in part, and remanded.
SILBERMAN and LUCAS, JJ., Concur.
Opinion subject to revision prior to official publication.
offender probation does not need to be corrected to reflect that the
sentences for the battery and unlawful sexual activity charges were
to be served concurrently.
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