Opinion
No. 1D10-1733.
May 9, 2011.
An appeal from the Circuit Court for Duval County. Linda F. McCallum, Judge.
Nancy A. Daniels, Public Defender, and Joel Arnold, Assistant Public Defender, Tallahassee, for Appellant.
Pamela Jo Bondi, Attorney General, Trisha Meggs Pate, Bureau Chief, Criminal Appeals, and Michael T. Kennett, Assistant Attorney General, Tallahassee, for Appellee.
Appellant, Chievy Jones, asserts that the trial court erroneously conducted a resentencing hearing without the presence of counsel or Appellant. We agree.
Appellant filed a Motion to Correct an Illegal Sentence pursuant to Rule 3.800(a), Florida Rules of Criminal Procedure. The trial court granted the motion in part, concluding that the HVFO designation on the armed kidnapping counts and the 15-year minimum mandatory sentences should be stricken. However, the trial court conducted the resentencing without Appellant or his counsel present. Cross v. State, 18 So.3d 1235, 1236 (Fla. 1st DCA 2009). Accordingly, we reverse and remand for a resentencing hearing in the presence of Appellant and his counsel. Id.; Bines v. State, 837 So.2d 1146, 1147 (Fla. 1st DCA 2003).
REVERSED and REMANDED.
WOLF, PADOVANO, and ROWE, JJ., concur.