Title: State v. Vamper

State: florida

Issuer: Florida Supreme Court

Document:

579 So. 2d 730 (1991)
STATE of Florida, Petitioner,
v.
Daniel Laverne VAMPER, Respondent.
No. 76165.

Supreme Court of Florida.
May 9, 1991.
Robert A. Butterworth, Atty. Gen., and Anita J. Gay, Asst. Atty. Gen., Miami, for petitioner.
Bennett H. Brummer, Public Defender and Valerie Jones, Asst. Public Defender, Eleventh Judicial Circuit, Miami, for respondent.
McDONALD, Justice.
In Vamper v. State, 562 So. 2d 816, 818 (Fla. 3d DCA 1990), the district court certified the following question as being of great public importance:
We have jurisdiction. Art. V, § 3(b)(4), Fla. Const. We considered a similar question in State v. Beasley, 580 So. 2d 139 (Fla. 1991), and held that statutorily mandated costs may be imposed on an indigent defendant without actual notice and without a determination, at time of imposition, of the defendant's ability to pay. Therefore, we answer the certified question in the negative and approve the district court's affirmance of the assessment of statutory costs.
It is so ordered.
SHAW, C.J., and OVERTON, BARKETT, GRIMES, KOGAN and HARDING, JJ., concur.