IN THE DISTRICT COURT OF APPEAL
FIRST DISTRICT, STATE OF FLORIDA
ANTONIO JOHNSON, NOT FINAL UNTIL TIME EXPIRES TO
FILE MOTION FOR REHEARING AND
Appellant, DISPOSITION THEREOF IF FILED
v. CASE NO. 1D15-3137
STATE OF FLORIDA,
Appellee.
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Opinion filed January 6, 2017.
An appeal from the Circuit Court for Leon County.
Terry P. Lewis, Judge.
Nancy A. Daniels, Public Defender, and Kathleen Stover, Assistant Public
Defender, Tallahassee, for Appellant.
Pamela Jo Bondi, Attorney General, Tayo Popoola and Jennifer Moore, Assistant
Attorneys General, Tallahassee, for Appellee.
WOLF, J.
Appellant challenges the revocation of his probation. We hold that the trial
court did not abuse its discretion in determining that the State had proven
appellant’s violation and in revoking appellant’s probation. However, the record
does not reflect a written order of revocation. Pursuant to this court’s holding in
Fowler v. State, 79 So. 3d 868, 869 (Fla. 1st DCA 2012), “[a] formal, written order
of revocation is required even when the record clearly reflects the trial court’s
intention to revoke probation and its reasons for doing so.”
Thus, though we affirm the revocation of appellant’s probation and
appellant’s resulting sentence, we nonetheless remand for the trial court to enter a
formal, written order of revocation. See Brown v. State, 10 So. 3d 1203 (Fla. 4th
DCA 2009).
BILBREY and M.K. THOMAS, JJ., CONCUR.
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