RICHARD CARL GOUDREAU v. STATE OF FLORIDA

263 So. 3d 822

Opinion

NOT FINAL UNTIL TIME EXPIRES TO FILE REHEARING MOTION AND, IF FILED, DETERMINED

IN THE DISTRICT COURT OF APPEAL OF FLORIDA SECOND DISTRICT

RICHARD CARL GOUDREAU, ) ) Appellant, ) ) v. ) Case No. 2D17-4024 ) STATE OF FLORIDA, ) ) Appellee. ) )

Opinion filed January 23, 2019.

Appeal from the Circuit Court for Charlotte County; Donald H. Mason, Judge.

Howard L. Dimmig, II, Public Defender, and Kevin Briggs, Assistant Public Defender, Bartow, for Appellant.

Ashley Brooke Moody, Attorney General, Tallahassee, and Lisa Martin, Assistant Attorney General, Tampa, for Appellee.

ROTHSTEIN-YOUAKIM, Judge.

Richard Carl Goudreau challenges the five-year prison sentence imposed

upon the revocation of his probation and adjudication of guilt of aggravated assault with

a deadly weapon. At the violation-of-probation hearing, the trial court, upon finding that

Goudreau had willfully and substantially violated probation, immediately revoked his probation and imposed sentence. Defense counsel then conferred with Goudreau and

stated that Goudreau wanted to address the court regarding sentencing, but the court

responded: "I've already made my decision on the sentencing. There's really nothing I

wish to hear from this point forward."

On appeal, Goudreau argues, and the State concedes, that the trial court

erred in sentencing him without affording him—and, in fact, affirmatively denying him—

his right of allocution. We agree. See Fla. R. Crim. P. 3.720(b); State v. Scott, 439 So.

2d 219, 221 (Fla. 1983); Hodierne v. State, 141 So. 3d 1254, 1255 (Fla. 2d DCA 2014);

Hill v. State, 246 So. 3d 392, 396-97 (Fla. 4th DCA 2018). Accordingly, we affirm the

revocation of Goudreau's probation and the judgment adjudicating guilt, but we reverse

the resulting sentence and remand for a new sentencing hearing.

Affirmed in part; reversed in part; remanded.

CASANUEVA and BADALAMENTI, JJ., Concur.

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