Marquis STOKES, Appellant, v. STATE of Florida, Appellee

Florida District Court of Appeal · April 20, 2012 · Docket No. 5D11-4338
91 So. 3d 159

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Marquis STOKES, Appellant, v. STATE of Florida, Appellee. No. 5D11-4338. District Court of Appeal of Florida, Fifth District. April 20, 2012. Marquis Stokes, Milton, pro se. Pamela Jo Bondi, Attorney General, Tallahassee, and Ann M. Phillips, Assistant Attorney General, Daytona Beach, for Ap-pellee.

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GRIFFIN, J.
Appellant, Marquis Stokes [“Stokes”], appeals the summary denial of his rule 3.800(a) motion. The trial court denied the motion because the claims were not cognizable in a rule 3.800(a) motion. This decision was correct for all claims except one.
Stokes asserts that the written sentence is in conflict with the oral pronouncement of his sentence. According to Stokes, the trial court orally pronounced a sentence of eight years of prison, followed by five years of probation, with early termination of probation after two years and no designation as an habitual felony offender [“HFO”]. Eight days later, however, the trial court amended Stokes’ sentence to designate him as a HFO and provided that early termination was to be permitted after two and one-half years probation.
The State acknowledges in its response that this claim is cognizable in a rule 3.800(a) motion, but notes that Stokes has not attached essential portions of the record, including the sentencing hearing transcript. We remand for the trial court to consider this claim on the merits. If the requisite documents, such as the sentencing hearing transcript, are not in the record, Stokes’ motion should be denied without prejudice to allow Stokes to file a legally sufficient amended motion. See Beard v. State, 27 So.3d 186, 188 (Fla. 5th DCA 2010).
AFFIRMED in part; REVERSED in part; and REMANDED.
ORFINGER, C.J., and TORPY, J„ concur.

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