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MICHAEL GROSSO, Appellant, v. STATE OF FLORIDA, Appellee. No. 4D07-4718

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MICHAEL GROSSO, Appellant, v. STATE OF FLORIDA, Appellee. No. 4D07-4718 District Court of Appeal of Florida, Fourth District. [ December 24, 2008 ] Appeal from the Circuit Court for the Seventeenth Judicial Circuit, Broward County; Michael L. Gates, Judge; L.T. Case No. 06-11956 CF 10 A. TAYLOR, J. Michael Grosso appeals the trial court’s order modifying his probation to include electronic monitoring more than sixty days after the probationary sentence was imposed. He challenges the modification on double jeopardy and jurisdictional grounds. Although we disagree with Grosso’s contention that the probation modification violated double jeopardy principles, we agree that the trial court lost jurisdiction to add electronic monitoring as a condition of probation more than sixty days after his sentencing...continue to full post

Full post as published by Florida Criminal Law Opinions on December 24, 2008 (boomark / email).