James Thomas Marley v. State of Florida
CourtDistrict Court of Appeal of Florida
Date FiledDecember 2, 2022
Docket2D21-2071
StatusPublished
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Full Opinion
DISTRICT COURT OF APPEAL OF FLORIDA
SECOND DISTRICT
JAMES THOMAS MARLEY,
Appellant,
v.
STATE OF FLORIDA,
Appellee.
No. 2D21-2071
December 2, 2022
Appeal from the Circuit Court for Polk County; Michael P.
McDaniel, Judge.
Howard L. Dimmig, II, Public Defender and Richard P. Albertine,
Jr., Assistant Public Defender, Bartow, for Appellant.
Ashley Moody, Attorney General, Tallahassee; and David Campbell,
Assistant Attorney General, Tampa, for Appellee.
LABRIT, Judge.
James Thomas Marley appeals his convictions and sentences
for battery of a law enforcement officer, resisting a law enforcement
officer with violence, and soliciting while obstructing a street. We
affirm the convictions and sentences without comment, but we
reverse and remand the Monetary Obligations Order because it
exceeds the fine orally imposed at sentencing.
At sentencing, the trial court imposed a $200 fine for cost of
prosecution. However, in the Monetary Obligations Order that
followed, the court ordered Marley to pay $100 in mandatory
prosecution costs and $200 in additional mandatory costs of
prosecution, for a total of $300. Marley filed a motion under Florida
Rule of Criminal Procedure 3.800(b)(2) seeking to conform the
Monetary Obligations Order to the trial court's oral pronouncement.
The State did not oppose Marley's motion, but the trial court did not
rule on it within sixty days. As a result, Marley's motion was
deemed denied. See Fla. R. Crim. P. 3.800(b)(2)(B) ("[I]f the trial
court does not file an order ruling on the [rule 3.800(b)(2)] motion
within 60 days, the motion shall be deemed denied.").
The trial court's oral pronouncement at sentencing controls
over its written order. Williams v. State, 957 So. 2d 600, 603 (Fla.
2007). We therefore reverse the Monetary Obligations Order and
remand with instructions to conform the order to the fine imposed
at sentencing.
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Affirmed in part, reversed in part, and remanded with
instructions.
KELLY and ATKINSON, JJ., Concur.
Opinion subject to revision prior to official publication.
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