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863 So. 2d 458

Docket No. 1D02-3718.

Saunders v. State

Marie SAUNDERS, Appellant, v. STATE of Florida, Appellee.

District Court of Appeal of Florida

Decided January 14, 2004.

District Court of Appeal of Florida · decided 2004-01-14

Cited by 5 later decisions — most recently October 2015

5 state decisions

Relies on Apprendi v. New Jersey · Jones v. State · Thomas v. Feinberg

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Decided 2004-01-14

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¶1*459 Nancy A. Daniels, Public Defender; Victoria A. Wiggins, Assistant Public Defender, Tallahassee, for Appellant.

¶2Charlie Crist, Attorney General; Bryan Jordan, Assistant Attorney General, Tallahassee, for Appellee.

¶3PER CURIAM.

¶4In this direct criminal appeal, we affirm appellant's convictions and sentences. We conclude that the trial court correctly denied appellant's motions for judgment of acquittal, and that Apprendi v. New Jersey,530 U.S. 466, 120 S.Ct. 2348, 147 L.Ed.2d 435 (2000), does not prohibit the trial court's finding that appellant qualified as an habitual felony offender. See, e.g., Jones v. State,791 So.2d 580 (Fla. 1st DCA 2001). However, because the trial court failed to inform appellant before imposing a public defender lien of her right to contest the amount, and because appellant preserved this issue by a timely filed motion pursuant to Florida Rule of Criminal Procedure 3.800(b) (which the trial court denied), we are constrained to reverse the imposition of the public defender lien, and to remand with directions that the trial court afford appellant an opportunity to have a hearing at which she may contest the amount. See Campbell v. State,745 So.2d 500 (Fla. 1st DCA 1999).

¶5AFFIRMED IN PART; REVERSED IN PART; and REMANDED, with directions.

¶6WEBSTER, LEWIS and HAWKES, JJ., concur.

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