Patrick Edward Beauzier v. State of Florida
CourtDistrict Court of Appeal of Florida
Date FiledNovember 12, 2026
Docket4D2024-2608
StatusPublished
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Full Opinion
DISTRICT COURT OF APPEAL OF THE STATE OF FLORIDA
FOURTH DISTRICT
PATRICK EDWARD BEAUZIER,
Appellant,
v.
STATE OF FLORIDA,
Appellee.
No. 4D2024-2608
[November 12, 2026]
Appeal from the Circuit Court for the Fifteenth Judicial Circuit, Palm
Beach County; Jeffrey Dana Gillen and James Nutt, Judges; L.T. Case No.
502022CF001562AXXXMB.
Daniel Eisinger, Public Defender, and Summer Hill, Assistant Public
Defender, West Palm Beach, for appellant.
James Uthmeier, Attorney General, Tallahassee, and Joseph Mollica,
Assistant Attorney General, West Palm Beach, for appellee.
GERBER, C.J.
The defendant appeals from his convictions and sentences for
possession of marijuana exceeding twenty grams (as charged), and
resisting an officer without violence (as a lesser included offense of
resisting an officer with violence). We affirm on all four issues which the
defendant has raised. We will briefly address the third and fourth issues.
On the third issue, the defendant argues the circuit court erred in
denying his Florida Rule of Criminal Procedure 3.800(b)(2) (2024) motion
to correct his sentence on the ground that his combined jail and
probationary sentence exceeded the statutory maximum for a nonstate
prison sanction. We affirm pursuant to Pozos v. State, 381 So. 3d 617,
621 (Fla. 4th DCA 2024) (โAlthough a nonstate prison sanction of county
jail incarceration must be limited to one year, nothing in section
775.082(10) restricts the aggregate duration of all nonstate prison
sanctions to one year.โ).
On the fourth issue, the defendant argues the circuit court
fundamentally erred by not providing the defendant with a twelve-person
jury. We affirm pursuant to Guzman v. State, 350 So. 3d 72 (Fla. 4th DCA
2022), rev. denied, No. SC22-1597, 2023 WL 3830251 (Fla. June 6, 2023).
But see Kian v. State, 421 So. 3d 439 (Fla. 4th DCA 2025), cert. granted,
146 S. Ct. 2732 (June 15, 2026).
Affirmed.
KLINGENSMITH and SHEPHERD, JJ., concur.
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Not final until disposition of timely-filed motion for rehearing.
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