GABRIEL MANUEL VELEZ-PIZZINI, APPELLANT,
v.
STATE OF FLORIDA, APPELLEE
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Gabriel Velez-Pizzini appealed his convictions for lewd and lascivious molestation and solicitation of a child, and attempted evidence tampering. The court affirmed the convictions but found that the trial court erred by imposing First Step Program costs as a special condition of probation without oral pronouncement, and remanded to strike these costs.
The court affirmed the convictions but held that the trial court erred in assessing First Step Program costs as a written-only special condition of probation. Under Florida Statutes section 948.039, special conditions of probation must be imposed by both oral pronouncement and written order, and the First Step Program costs must be stricken because they were not orally pronounced.
[1] A trial court must orally pronounce special conditions of probation, including mandatory payments to certain nonprofit organizations, in addition to including them in the…
[2] Failure to orally pronounce a special condition of probation renders that condition invalid and subject to being stricken.
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Gabriel Velez-Pizzini appeals his convictions for lewd and lascivious molestation of a child, lewd and lascivious solicitation of a child and attempted evidence tampering. We find no reversible error with respect to any issue affecting the convictions, and affirm them without further discussion. We agree with appellant, however, that the trial court erred in assessing “First Step Program” costs as a written (but not oral) special condition of probation.1
Section 948.039, Florida Statutes (2009), mandates that trial courts impose special conditions of probation by oral pronouncement and written order. Such special conditions include requirements that the offender “[p]ay not more than $1 per month during the term of probation or community control to a nonprofit organization established for the sole purpose of supplementing the rehabilitative efforts of the Department of Corrections.” § 948.039(2), Fla. Stat. (2009). It appears that the First Step of the Fifth Judicial Circuit, Inc., is such a program. These fees used to be included as standard conditions under section 948.03(1), Florida Statutes (1996), but in 2004, were made special conditions under section 948.039, Florida Statutes. Ch. 2004-373, § 26, Laws of Fla. Accordingly, these costs could only be imposed if orally pronounced, and must be stricken. See, e.g., Justice v. State, 674 So.2d 123 (Fla.1996) (holding that where a trial court fails to orally pronounce certain special conditions of probation which later appear in the written sentence order, the court on remand must strike the unannounced conditions and cannot reimpose them upon resentencing).
*279AFFIRMED; REMANDED WITH DIRECTIONS THAT FIRST STEP PROGRAM COSTS BE STRICKEN.
GRIFFIN, ORFINGER, and LAWSON, JJ., concur.
ON MOTION FOR REHEARING AND REHEARING EN BANC
We grant the State’s motion for rehearing and withdraw that portion of our prior opinion of January 28, 2011, which erroneously remanded with directions to strike the special probation condition of First Step Program costs. Although the trial court did not orally announce this condition at sentencing, the appellant raised this procedural argument in a timely motion to correct sentencing error, which adequately protected his procedural due process rights. Grubb v. State, 922 So.2d 1002, 1004 (Fla. 5th DCA 2006) (en banc). Because the appellant did not raise a substantive objection to this unpronounced, but otherwise unobjectionable special condition, it need not be stricken. Id.; Ladson v. State, 955 So.2d 612, 613 (Fla. 2d DCA 2007) (en banc). Accordingly, we affirm appellant’s judgment and sentence in full. In light of the above, we deny the State’s motion for rehearing en banc as moot.
AFFIRMED.
GRIFFIN, ORFINGER, and LAWSON, JJ., concur.
PER CURIAM.
We grant the State’s motion for rehearing and withdraw that portion of our prior opinion of January 28, 2011, which erroneously remanded with directions to strike the special probation condition of First Step Program costs. Although the trial court did not orally announce this condition at sentencing, the appellant raised this procedural argument in a timely motion to correct sentencing error, which adequately protected his procedural due process rights. Grubb v. State, 922 So. 2d 1002, 1004 (Fla. 5th DCA 2006) (en banc). Because the appellant did not raise a substantive objection to this unpronounced, but otherwise unobjectionable special condition, it need not be stricken. Id.; Ladson v. State, 955 So. 2d 612, 613 (Fla. 2d DCA 2007) (en banc). Accordingly, we affirm appellant’s judgment and sentence in full. In light of the above, we deny the State’s motion for rehearing en banc as moot.
AFFIRMED.
GRIFFIN, ORFINGER, and LAWSON, JJ., concur.
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