JEREMY E. LYNN vs STATE OF FLORIDA

• Court: District Court of Appeal of Florida
• Decided: November 14, 2022
• Docket: 22-0617
• Status: Published

Opinion

IN THE DISTRICT COURT OF APPEAL OF THE STATE OF FLORIDA FIFTH DISTRICT

NOT FINAL UNTIL TIME EXPIRES TO FILE MOTION FOR REHEARING AND DISPOSITION THEREOF IF FILED

JEREMY E. LYNN,

Appellant,

v. Case No. 5D22-617 LT Case No. 2021-302270-CFDB

STATE OF FLORIDA,

Appellee.

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Opinion filed November 14, 2022

Appeal from the Circuit Court for Volusia County, Leah R. Case, Judge.

Tiffany Gatesh Fearing, of Suncoast Legal Group, P.L., Spring Hill, for Appellant.

Ashley Moody, Attorney General, Tallahassee, and Whitney Brown Hartless, Assistant Attorney General, Daytona Beach, for Appellee.

PER CURIAM. In this non-Anders 1 appeal, Jeremy E. Lynn challenges the order

revoking his drug offender probation after trial and the resulting judgment

and sentences imposed by the trial court. Concluding that the arguments

raised by Lynn for reversal lack merit as the State met its burden of showing

by the greater weight of the evidence that Lynn willfully and substantially

violated his probation, see Del Valle v. State, 80 So. 3d 999, 1012 (Fla.

2011), we affirm. Two matters, though, merit brief comment.

First, Lynn was on drug offender probation for the third-degree felonies

of criminal mischief over $1,000 2 and possession of a schedule II

substance. 3 Upon revoking Lynn’s probation, the trial court orally sentenced

him to serve six years in prison, with the written judgment showing the six-

year sentence on each count to be served concurrently. These sentences

exceed the five-year statutory cap for third-degree felonies,4 and there is

nothing contained in the record, such as the lowest permissible sentence on

the Criminal Punishment Code scoresheet showing six years, to explain why

1 Anders v. California, 386 U.S. 738 (1967). 2 See § 806.13(1)(b)3., Fla. Stat. (2020). 3 See § 893.13(6)(a), Fla. Stat. (2020). 4 See § 775.082(3)(e), Fla. Stat. (2020).

2 his sentences should exceed five years. See § 921.0024(2), Fla. Stat.

(2020).

Second, the written order revoking probation cites to a violation of

probation that Lynn was not found to have committed by the trial court. The

order also does not include the two violations of probation that the court

actually found were committed by Lynn.

However, because these apparent errors in both the sentence and the

revocation order have not been preserved for review on direct appeal by

either an objection or a motion filed under Florida Rule of Criminal Procedure

3.800(b), our affirmance here is without prejudice to Lynn timely filing a

motion below seeking collateral relief, as appropriate. See, e.g., Washington

v. State, 814 So. 2d 1187, 1189 (Fla. 5th DCA 2002).

AFFIRMED, without prejudice.

LAMBERT, C.J., EVANDER and WALLIS, JJ., concur.