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Montavious JOHNSON, Appellant, v. STATE of Florida, Appellee.
    No. 98-1598.
    District Court of Appeal of Florida, First District.
    May 14, 1999.
    Nancy A. Daniels, Public Defender; Carl S. McGinnes, Assistant Public Defender, Tallahassee, for Appellant.
    Robert A. Butterworth, Attorney General; Sherri Tolar Rollison and Trisha E. Meggs, Assistant Attorneys General,. Tallahassee, for Appellee.
   PER CURIAM.

We affirm appellant’s conviction and sentence, including the public defender lien that was imposed without being orally pronounced in open court. However, as in Locke v. State, 719 So.2d 1249, 1252 (Fla. 1st DCA 1998), we certify to the supreme court the following question as being of great public importance:

DOES THE FAILURE OF THE TRIAL COURT TO ORALLY PRONOUNCE EACH STATUTORILY AUTHORIZED COST INDIVIDUALLY AT THE TIME OF SENTENCING CONSTITUTE FUNDAMENTAL ERROR?

JOANOS, MINER and DAVIS, JJ., CONCUR.