Florida District Courts of Appeal, 2006

Briggs v. State

Briggs v. State
Florida District Courts of Appeal · Decided September 6, 2006 · Gross, Klein, Warner
936 So. 2d 789; 2006 Fla. App. LEXIS 14864; 2006 WL 2557968 (Southern Reporter, Second Series)

Briggs v. State

Opinion of the Court

WARNER, J.

We affirm appellant’s sentence for violation of probation and conclude that the trial court’s oral pronouncement was unambiguous that appellant’s sentence was forty-eight months additional prison time after considering credit for time served in prison prior to the violation of probation. *790Although there was a scrivener’s error in reducing this pronouncement to writing, the oral pronouncement controls over the written sentence. See Ashley v. State, 850 So.2d 1265, 1268 (Fla. 2003). We therefore affirm but remand to correct the written sentence to reflect the oral pronouncement. Before correcting the sentence, the court will need to determine the exact credit for time served.

KLEIN and GROSS, JJ., concur.

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