William Carroll Meredith v. State of Florida
CourtDistrict Court of Appeal of Florida
Date FiledApril 27, 2022
Docket2D20-2930
StatusPublished
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Full Opinion
DISTRICT COURT OF APPEAL OF FLORIDA
SECOND DISTRICT
WILLIAM CARROLL MEREDITH,
Appellant,
v.
STATE OF FLORIDA,
Appellee.
No. 2D20-2930
April 27, 2022
Appeal from the Circuit Court for Hendry County; James D. Sloan,
Judge.
Howard L. Dimmig, II, Public Defender, and Daniel Muller,
Assistant Public Defender, Bartow, for Appellant.
Ashley Moody, Attorney General, Tallahassee, and James Aaron
Hellickson, Assistant Attorney General, Tampa, for Appellee.
PER CURIAM.
William Meredith's convictions and resulting sentences for
sexual battery on a physically incapacitated person and petit theft
are affirmed without prejudice to any right he may have to seek
relief on his claims of ineffective assistance of counsel pursuant to a
postconviction motion under Florida Rule of Criminal Procedure
3.850. See Steiger v. State, 328 So. 3d 926, 932 (Fla. 2021).
The trial court previously granted Mr. Meredith relief pursuant
to rule 3.800(b) and directed correction of certain sentencing
documents and costs orders. The written judgment and sentence
was reentered to reflect the corrections of the scrivener's errors and
costs imposed, but the State has conceded that corrected versions
of the scoresheet, probation order, and costs order have not yet
been entered. Accordingly, we remand solely for the reentry of
those additional record items as amended to reflect the corrections
directed by the trial court's prior order granting the rule 3.800(b)
motion.
Affirmed; remanded.
KELLY, SMITH, and LABRIT, JJ., Concur.
Opinion subject to revision prior to official publication.
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