Case ID: so2d_677/html/0393-02.html
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Author: {"author": "CAMPBELL, Acting Chief Judge.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

Patrick WALDRON, Appellant, v. STATE of Florida, Appellee.
    No. 95-00315.
    District Court of Appeal of Florida, Second District.
    July 24, 1996.
    
      James Marion Moorman, Pubhc Defender, and Douglas Chanco, Assistant Pubhc Defender, Bartow, for AppeUant.
    Robert A. Butterworth, Attorney General, Tallahassee, and Johnny T. Salgado, Assistant Attorney General, Tampa, for Appellee.
   CAMPBELL, Acting Chief Judge.

Appellant challenges his conviction and sentence for robbery with a firearm. Although appellant raises three issues, we have found merit in only one, the imposition of a pubhc defender hen without properly notifying appellant of his right to a hearing to contest the amount of the hen. Accordingly, we vacate the pubhc defender hen and remand for its proper reimposition.

Under Bull v. State, 548 So.2d 1103 (Fla.1989), the court is required to give appellant notice of his right to a hearing to contest the amount of the hen at the time of sentence. See also Fla.R.Crim.P. 3.720(d)(1); Wilson v. State, 675 So.2d 613 (Fla. 2d DCA 1996). The court here merely announced the $1,500 pubhc defender hen and said no more about it. Under Bull, this was error, requiring us to vacate the imposition of the hen and remand for proper reimposition.

On remand, appellant will have thirty days from the date of this court’s mandate to file a written objection to the amount assessed for pubhc defender fees. Bourque v. State, 595 So.2d 222 (Fla. 2d DCA 1992). If an objection is filed, the trial court shall strike the current assessment and shall not impose a new one without proper notice and a hearing. Id.; Pettway v. State, — So.2d --, 21 Fla. L. Weekly D1526 (Fla. 2d DCA June 26, 1996). See also Reyes v. State, 655 So.2d 111 (Fla. 2d DCA 1995); Farmer v. State, 617 So.2d 447 (Fla. 2d DCA 1993).

We affirm the judgment in all other respects.

BLUE and QUINCE, JJ., concur.