Case Name: Debbie WILLIS, Appellant, v. STATE of Florida, Appellee
Court: Florida District Court of Appeal
Jurisdiction: Florida
Decision Date: 1995-12-28
Citations: 665 So. 2d 354
Docket Number: No. 94-3420
Parties: Debbie WILLIS, Appellant, v. STATE of Florida, Appellee.
Judges: BOOTH, JOANOS and BENTON, JJ., concur.
Reporter: Southern Reporter, Second Series
Volume: 665
Pages: 354–355

Head Matter:
Debbie WILLIS, Appellant, v. STATE of Florida, Appellee.
No. 94-3420.
District Court of Appeal of Florida, First District.
Dec. 28, 1995.
Nancy A. Daniels, Public Defender; Kathleen Stover and P. Douglas Brinkmeyer, As sistant Public Defenders, Tallahassee, for Appellant.
Robert A. Butterworth, Attorney General; Giselle Lylen Rivera, Assistant Attorney General, and James W. Rogers, Senior Assistant Attorney General, Tallahassee, for Ap-pellee.

Opinion:
PER CURIAM.
In this Anders appeal, the trial court imposed a public defender lien without affording Ms. Willis the opportunity to contest the amount assessed. "The failure to provide notice before the assessment of an attorney-fee hen of the right to a hearing to contest the amount of the hen is contrary to the requirements of section 27.56(7), Florida Statutes." Robinson v. State, 667 So.2d 384, 386 (Fla. 1st DCA 1995) (citing In re L.A.D. v. State, 616 So.2d 106 (Fla. 1st DCA 1993), review denied, 624 So.2d 268 (Fla.1993)).
Accordingly, the imposition of the pubhc defender hen is reversed, without prejudice to reimpose it on remand after comphance with section 27.56(7), Florida Statutes (1993). The judgment and sentence are in ah other respects affirmed.
BOOTH, JOANOS and BENTON, JJ., concur.
. See Anders v. California, 386 U.S. 738, 87 S.Ct. 1396, 18 L.Ed.2d 493 (1967).
. Section 27.56(7), Florida Statutes (1993) provides:
The court having jurisdiction of the defendant-recipient may, at such stage of the proceedings as the court may deem appropriate, determine the value of the services of the public defender, special assistant public defender, or appointed private legal counsel and costs, at which time the defendant-recipient or parent, after adequate notice thereof, shall have opportunity to he heard and offer objection to the determination, and to be represented by counsel, with due opportunity to exercise and be accorded the procedures and rights provided in the laws and court rules pertaining to civil cases at law.
(Emphasis added).