Spear v. State
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The Supreme Court held that, subject to the procedural constraints of Fla. R. Crim. P. 3.800(b), a trial court has the inherent authority to sua sponte correct sentencing documents that overreport the amount of jail time served by a defendant previous to sentencing or the amount of jail time and prison time served by a defendant prior to sentencing.
Rather than defer to the Department of Correction the calculation of Defendant's prison credit, the clerk erroneously calculated the totals of jail and prison credit, resulting in sentencing documents that not only overreported the amount of Defendant's credit for time served but did not distinguish between jail and prison credit. The Supreme Court held that the sua sponte corrections to Defendant's sentencing documents, which the trial court made after Defendant's appeal was over, were untimely and could not stand.
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