Curtis Jermaine Cray v. State of Florida
CourtDistrict Court of Appeal of Florida
Date FiledFebruary 28, 2020
Docket2D18-3372
StatusPublished
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IN THE DISTRICT COURT OF APPEAL
OF FLORIDA
SECOND DISTRICT
CURTIS JERMAINE CRAY, )
DOC #C02890, )
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Appellant, )
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v. ) Case No. 2D18-3372
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STATE OF FLORIDA, )
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Appellee. )
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Opinion filed February 28, 2020.
Appeal from the Circuit Court for
Sarasota County; Charles E. Roberts,
Judge.
Howard L. Dimmig, II, Public Defender,
and Siobhan Helene Shea, Special
Assistant Public Defender, Bartow, for
Appellant.
Ashley Moody, Attorney General,
Tallahassee, for Appellee.
SALARIO, Judge.
This is an appeal proceeding in accord with Anders v. California, 386 U.S.
738 (1967). Curtis Jermaine Cray pleaded no contest to one count of attempted sexual
battery on a victim under twelve, see §§ 794.011(2)(a), 777.04, Fla. Stat. (2013), two
counts of sexual battery on a victim under twelve and over whom he held a position of
familial authority, see § 794.011(8)(b), Fla. Stat. (2014), and one count of lewd or
lascivious molestation on a victim under twelve, see § 800.04(5)(b), Fla. Stat (2013).
He was sentenced to concurrent terms of thirty years on each of the sexual battery
counts and to a concurrent fifty-year sentence, with a twenty-five-year minimum
mandatory and to be followed by a life term of sex-offender probation, on the lewd or
lascivious molestation count. We affirm these convictions and sentences without
comment.
We have, however, identified a scrivener's error on the face of the written
judgment. It concerns the identification of the offenses to which Mr. Cray pleaded guilty
and of which he was convicted and sentenced. Mr. Cray's plea was entered and
accepted on counts one through three for violations of sections 794.011, the sexual
battery statute. The trial court orally pronounced convictions of the sexual battery
offenses charged in those counts and sentenced Mr. Cray in accord with those
convictions. But the written judgment inaccurately describes the convictions as being
for crimes of "sexual assault," not for crimes of sexual battery. Sexual assault is not a
crime under section 794.011, which deals solely with types of sexual battery.
Aside from the misidentification of the offenses of conviction, the written
judgment otherwise correctly reflects the applicable statutes and degrees of offense for
counts one through three as pleaded to by Mr. Cray and as pronounced by the trial
court. The scrivener's error is thus limited to the language on the written judgment
describing the offenses as something other than sexual battery. Accordingly, we
remand the case to the trial court to correct the written judgment to reflect that counts
one through three were for the crimes of sexual battery—not sexual assault—to which
Mr. Cray pleaded and on which he was convicted and sentenced, in keeping with the
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trial court's oral pronouncement on those matters. See Pickett v. State, 573 So. 2d 177,
178 (Fla. 2d DCA 1991); Durdick v. State, 476 So. 2d 317, 318 (Fla. 2d DCA 1985).
Affirmed; remanded.
NORTHCUTT and LaROSE, JJ., Concur.
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