SAMUEL NATHAN PRITCHARD
v.
STATE OF FLORIDA

Fla. 5th DCA | 2020-09-11
No. 19-3248
Maltz, J., Evander, C.J., Eisnaugle, J., Harris, J.
Florida District Court of Appeal, Fifth District (2020)

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Holding

The judgment and sentence are affirmed, but the $100 cost of investigation must be struck from the amended costs order.

Headnotes

[1] A $100 cost of investigation cannot be imposed as part of a costs order against a defendant.

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“The trial court is directed to strike the $100 cost of investigation imposed upon Appellant in the amended costs order.”

Court's directive regarding the costs order
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Samuel Nathan Pritchard was convicted and sentenced in St. Johns County Circuit Court. The trial court imposed an amended costs order that included a …

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Opinion of the Court
Evander

IN THE DISTRICT COURT OF APPEAL OF THE STATE OF FLORIDA

FIFTH DISTRICT

NOT FINAL UNTIL TIME EXPIRES TO

FILE MOTION FOR REHEARING AND

DISPOSITION THEREOF IF FILED

SAMUEL NATHAN PRITCHARD,

Appellant,

v. Case No. 5D19-3248

STATE OF FLORIDA,

Appellee.

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Opinion filed September 11, 2020

Appeal from the Circuit Court for St. Johns County, Howard M. Maltz, Judge.

James S. Purdy, Public Defender, and Ali L. Hansen, Assistant Public Defender, Daytona Beach, for Appellant.

Ashley Moody, Attorney General, Tallahassee, and Rebecca Rock McGuigan, Assistant Attorney General, Daytona Beach, for Appellee.

PER CURIAM.

In this Anders1 appeal, we affirm, without further discussion, the judgment and sentence imposed upon Appellant with one exception. The trial court is directed to strike

AFFIRMED. REMANDED to Strike Cost of Investigation.

EVANDER, C.J., and EISNAUGLE and HARRIS, JJ., concur.

Footnotes
1 Anders v. California, 386 U.S. 738 (1967).
2 the $100 cost of investigation imposed upon Appellant in the amended costs order. See Richards v. State, 288 So. 3d 574, 577 (Fla. 2020).

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