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Jackson v. State

Citations

  • 615 So. 2d 850
  • 1993 WL 75787

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  • holding that jail term for second count of two-count conviction, to be served between jail term and probationary period for first count, was not impermissible gap in sentencing, but merely interrupted probationary term
  • holding that when a trial judge’s oral pronouncement of a sentence is ambiguous, but the judge’s intention is discernible from the record, the proper sentence is what the judge intended it to be
  • finding that court’s ambiguous oral pronouncement could be resolved where its intent was discernible from the record as a whole
  • ordering correction of orally pronounced sentence to comport with intent, clearly established in record, of trial court and counsel for the State and defendant
  • approving sentence which required the defendant to serve the jail term for the second count of a two-count conviction between the jail term and probationary period for the first count
  • a defendant's sentence is whatever the trial court intended it to be

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Judges: Danahy

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