Gilbert Delagarza Ramirez v. State of Florida
CourtDistrict Court of Appeal of Florida
Date FiledJanuary 15, 2021
Docket2D19-1598
StatusPublished
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IN THE DISTRICT COURT OF APPEAL
OF FLORIDA
SECOND DISTRICT
GILBERT DELAGARZA RAMIREZ, )
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Appellant, )
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v. ) Case No. 2D19-1598
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STATE OF FLORIDA, )
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Appellee. )
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Opinion filed January 15, 2021.
Appeal from the Circuit Court for Glades
County; Jack E. Lundy, Acting Circuit
Judge.
Howard L. Dimmig, II, Public Defender,
and Richard P. Albertine, Jr., Assistant
Public Defender, Bartow, for Appellant.
Ashley Moody, Attorney General,
Tallahassee, and Johnny T. Salgado,
Assistant Attorney General, Tampa, for
Appellee.
SMITH, Judge.
Gilbert Ramirez appeals the amended order revoking his probation and
resulting sentence1 arguing he did not willfully and substantially violate condition nine of
1The original order revoking Mr. Ramirez's probation and sentence dated
March 27, 2019, was amended after Mr. Ramirez successfully moved to correct a
his probation on three occasions because the evidence showed the violations were
merely the result of his inept and negligent conduct. We affirm the revocation of
probation and sentence without comment; however, we remand for entry of a corrected
revocation order consistent with the sentencing court's oral findings.
The order on appeal finds that Mr. Ramirez willfully and substantially
violated condition nine of his probation on three separate occasions. The order was
entered after an evidentiary hearing pursuant to the affidavit of violation of probation
from Mr. Ramirez's probation officer. The probation officer testified at the hearing that
Mr. Ramirez violated condition nine of his probation by leaving his electronic monitoring
device at home on two separate occasions on October 25, 2018, and once on
November 6, 2018, after he had been instructed on numerous occasions to keep the
device on him at all times. condition nine provides: "You will promptly and truthfully
answer all inquiries directed to you by the court or your officer, and allow your officer to
visit in your home, at your employment site or elsewhere, and you will comply with all
instructions your officer may give you."
At the conclusion of the hearing, the trial court found the State had proved
the violation on November 6 but failed to prove the violations on October 25, finding:
I do find that he is guilty of violating his probation. I
specifically find that it is a willful and material violation for the
November 6th date as alleged in the [affidavit]. I do find that
the State has failed to prove a willful and . . . substantial
violation on the two first ones in October . . . .
sentencing error under Florida Rule of Criminal Procedure 3.800(b)(2)โthe order
erroneously stated that Mr. Ramirez admitted to the probation violations. The amended
order of revocation of probation states the trial court found by a preponderance of the
evidence that Mr. Ramirez violated his probation following an evidentiary hearing.
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(Emphasis added.) However, contrary to the trial court's oral findings, the amended
order incorrectly finds Mr. Ramirez violated condition nine on three occasions.
"A written order of revocation must conform to the oral pronouncement at
the hearing." Narvaez v. State, 674 So. 2d 868, 869 (Fla. 2d DCA 1996) (citing Corona
v. State, 642 So. 2d 667, 668 (Fla. 3d DCA 1994) (reversing, in part, so that the written
order, which found defendant committed eleven violations as alleged by the State,
conformed to trial court's oral findings, which did not find that defendant committed all
eleven violations); see also Smith v. State, 100 So. 3d 253, 254 (Fla. 3d DCA 2012)
(remanding for entry of a written revocation of probation order that correctly reflects the
trial court's oral ruling finding the defendant had violated one condition of probation, not
the three included in the written order). Here, the written order finds that Mr. Ramirez
violated condition nine on the three occasions alleged in the affidavit of violation of
probation. However, while the trial court found that Mr. Ramirez willfully and
substantially violated condition nine of his probation on November 6, the trial court orally
pronounced that the State failed to prove that the two alleged violations on October 25
were willful, substantial violations of condition nine. Thus, we affirm the trial court's
decision to revoke Mr. Ramirez's probation, but we remand this case for the trial court to
correct the revocation order by clarifying that Mr. Ramirez was found to have willfully
and substantially violated condition nine of his probation the one time, on November 6,
2018.2 Mr. Ramirez need not be present for the entry of the second amended
revocation order. See Narvaez, 674 So. 2d at 869.
2We note that the amended order of revocation of probation incorrectly
lists the date of the October violations as October 20, 2018, instead of the correct date
of October 25, 2018. Because we are remanding for the trial court to clarify that Mr.
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Affirmed; remanded with instructions.
NORTHCUTT and ROTHSTEIN-YOUAKIM, JJ., Concur.
Ramirez only willfully and substantially violated condition nine of his probation on one
occasion, November 6, 2018, this scrivener's error should be resolved with the second
amended order of violation of probation.
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