DISTRICT COURT OF APPEAL OF THE STATE OF FLORIDA

FOURTH DISTRICT

JEFFREY ALLEN SIKICH,

Appellant,

v.

STATE OF FLORIDA,

Appellee.

No. 4D21-1704

[April 27, 2022]

Appeal from the County Court for the Fifteenth Judicial Circuit, Palm 

Beach County; Leonard Hanser, Judge; L.T. Case No. 

502019CT010495ANB.

Carey Haughwout, Public Defender, and Elijah Giuliano, Assistant 

Public Defender, West Palm Beach, for appellant.

Ashley Moody, Attorney General, Tallahassee, and Richard Valuntas, 

Assistant Attorney General, West Palm Beach, for appellee.

GERBER, J.

The defendant appeals from the trial court’s order denying his Florida 

Rule of Criminal Procedure 3.800(b)(2) motion to correct sentencing errors. 

The defendant argues the trial court erred by imposing certain costs and 

fines at sentencing, as well as certain special probation conditions, and 

that a scrivener’s error requires correction. We agree that the trial court 

erred in three respects, by: (1) assessing $100 for prosecution costs; (2) 

imposing a special probation condition which the trial court had not 

announced at sentencing; and (3) as the state concedes, indicating on the 

probation order that the defendant had pled guilty to Count I, when, in 

fact, a jury had found him guilty. We will address each in turn.

1. Error in assessing $100 for prosecution costs

Section 938.27(8), Florida Statutes (2021), states: “Costs for the state 

attorney must be set in all cases at no less than $50 per case when a 

misdemeanor or criminal traffic offense is charged .... The court may set 

a higher amount upon a showing of sufficient proof of higher costs 
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incurred.” § 938.27(8), Fla. Stat. (2021). “The burden of demonstrating 

the amount of costs incurred is on the state attorney.” § 938.27(4), Fla. 

Stat. (2021).

Here, the state neither requested the trial court to impose a $100 

prosecution cost, nor presented any evidence to support this higher cost. 

Nor did the trial court announce this higher cost. Thus, we must reverse 

the imposition of the $100 prosecution cost, and remand for the trial court 

to reduce the prosecution cost to $50. See Schrager v. State, 330 So. 3d 

1033, 1033 (Fla. 5th DCA 2021) (“Schrager correctly asserts that the trial 

court imposed $100 costs of prosecution in each case rather than the $50 

statutory minimum costs of prosecution, even though the [s]tate did not 

request, and the [c]ourt did not announce, the greater amount. In its 

answer brief, the [s]tate agrees that upon remand, the trial court should 

impose $50 costs of prosecution in each case.”).

2. Error in imposing a special probation condition not announced

at sentencing

“Whether a probation condition is a general condition or a special 

condition is determined by reference to Florida Statutes ... and Florida 

Rule of Criminal Procedure 3.986(e), and conditions which appear in 

neither a statute nor the rule are considered special and must be orally 

pronounced.” Metellus v. State, 310 So. 3d 90, 93 (Fla. 4th DCA 2021) 

(emphases added; brackets and citation omitted).

The defendant’s probation condition (8) stated the defendant would 

“pay $50 per month toward the cost of ... supervision.” Without any 

accompanying oral pronouncement, the trial court was authorized to 

impose only a $40 monthly supervision charge. See § 948.09(1)(b), Fla. 

Stat. (2021) (“Any person placed on misdemeanor probation by a county 

court must contribute not less than $40 per month, as decided by the 

sentencing court, to the court-approved public or private entity providing 

misdemeanor supervision.”). We therefore must reverse the imposition of 

the $50 monthly supervision cost, and remand for the imposition of 

section 948.09(1)(b)’s $40 monthly supervision cost as a condition of the 

defendant’s probation. Paris v. State, 47 Fla. L. Weekly D445, 2022 WL 

472944, at *1 (Fla. 4th DCA Feb. 16, 2022); Sandoval v. State, 47 Fla. L. 

Weekly D441, 2022 WL 473010, at *1 (Fla. 4th DCA Feb. 16, 2022).

3. Error in indicating the defendant had entered a guilty plea

The defendant argues the trial court’s probation order incorrectly states 

that he had pled guilty to Count I, when in fact, a jury had found him 
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guilty. The state properly concedes this scrivener’s error. Accordingly, we

remand for the trial court to correct the scrivener’s error. Sirota v. State, 

977 So. 2d 700, 701 (Fla. 4th DCA 2008).

Conclusion

Based on the foregoing, we reverse in part the trial court’s denying the 

defendant’s Florida Rule of Criminal Procedure 3.800(b)(2) motion as 

specified above, and remand for the corrections specified above. The 

defendant need not be present for these ministerial corrections. On all 

other arguments which the defendant has raised in this appeal, we affirm 

without further discussion.

Affirmed in part, reversed in part, and remanded with instructions.

CONNER, C.J., and KUNTZ, J., concur.

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Not final until disposition of timely filed motion for rehearing.