Desha Ione Beauty v. State of Florida

• Court: District Court of Appeal of Florida
• Decided: November 22, 2024
• Docket: 5D2024-1166
• Status: Published

Opinion

FIFTH DISTRICT COURT OF APPEAL STATE OF FLORIDA _____________________________

Case No. 5D2024-1166 LT Case No. 2022-CF-002511-A _____________________________

DESHA IONE BEAUTY,

Appellant,

v.

STATE OF FLORIDA,

Appellee. _____________________________

On appeal from the Circuit Court for Seminole County. William Scott Orth, Judge.

Matthew J. Metz, Public Defender, and Kathryn Rollison Radtke, Assistant Public Defender, Daytona Beach, for Appellant.

Ashley Moody, Attorney General, Tallahassee, and Alyssa M. Williams, Assistant Attorney General, Daytona Beach, for Appellee.

November 22, 2024

PER CURIAM.

Appellant raises a single issue in her appeal: can the trial court order a defendant to pay the minimum statutorily prescribed cost of prosecution pursuant to section 938.27(8), Florida Statutes (2024), if the State does not specifically request same? We answered this question in the affirmative in O’Malley v. State, 378 So. 3d 672 (Fla. 5th DCA 2024), because the cited statute makes imposition of the statutorily specified minimum cost of prosecution mandatory. See Parks v. State, 371 So. 3d 392, 393–94 (Fla. 1st DCA 2023), review granted, No. SC2023-1355, 2024 WL 370043 (Fla. Jan. 31, 2024). In O’Malley, we certified that our decision and the First District’s opinion in Parks, directly conflicted with the Second District’s opinion in D.L.J. v. State, 331 So. 3d 227 (Fla. 2d DCA 2021), review granted, No. SC2023-1355, 2024 WL 370043 (Fla. Jan. 31, 2024). Accordingly, we affirm.

AFFIRMED.

EDWARDS, C.J., and WALLIS and EISNAUGLE, JJ., concur.

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Not final until disposition of any timely and authorized motion under Fla. R. App. P. 9.330 or 9.331. _____________________________