Title: Donnie Keith Sassnett v. State of Florida

State: florida

Issuer: Florida Supreme Court

Document:

Supreme Court of Florida
 
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No. SC94812
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DONNIE KEITH SASSNETT
Petitioner,
vs.
STATE OF FLORIDA,
Respondent.
[June 15, 2000]
PER CURIAM.
We have for review a decision of the First District Court of Appeal certifying
the following question to be one 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?
 
Sassnett v. State, 724 So. 2d 174 (Fla. 1st DCA 1998).  We have jurisdiction.  See
art. V, § 3(b)(4), Fla. Const.  For the reasons expressed in our opinion in Maddox v.
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State, 25 Fla. L. Weekly S367 (Fla. May 11, 2000), we answer the certified
question in the negative.  We approve the decision below and find that the
unpreserved sentencing errors asserted in this case do not constitute fundamental
error. 
It is so ordered. 
HARDING, C.J., and SHAW, WELLS, ANSTEAD, PARIENTE, LEWIS and
QUINCE, JJ., concur.
NOT FINAL UNTIL TIME EXPIRES TO FILE REHEARING MOTION, AND IF
FILED, DETERMINED. 
Application for Review of the Decision of the District Court of Appeal - Certified Great
Public Importance
First District - Case No. 1D97-3667 
(Duval County)
Nancy A. Daniels, Public Defender, Carol Ann Turner, and Kathleen Stover, Assistant
Public Defenders, Second Judicial Circuit, Tallahassee, Florida,
for Petitioner
Robert A. Butterworth, Attorney General, James W. Rogers, Bureau Chief, Criminal
Appeals, Tallahassee, Florida,
for Respondent