Case Name: Tyler MOOK, Appellant, v. STATE of Florida, Appellee
Court: Florida District Court of Appeal
Jurisdiction: Florida
Decision Date: 2017-11-22
Citations: 231 So. 3d 8
Docket Number: No. 4D16-2179
Parties: Tyler MOOK, Appellant, v. STATE of Florida, Appellee.
Judges: Warner, Gross and Taylor, JJ., concur.
Reporter: Southern Reporter, Third Series
Volume: 231
Pages: 8–8

Head Matter:
Tyler MOOK, Appellant, v. STATE of Florida, Appellee.
No. 4D16-2179
District Court of Appeal of Florida, Fourth District.
[November 22, 2017]
Carey Haughwout, Public Defender, and Gary Lee Caldwell, Assistant Public Defender, West Palm Beach, for appellant.
Pamela Jo Bondi, Attorney General, Tallahassee, and Kimberly T,. Acuña, Assistant Attorney General, West Palm Beach, for appellee.

Opinion:
Per Curiam.
We affirm appellant's conviction for attempted second degree murder. We reverse the award of costs to the state for bringing two witnesses from Tennessee to testify at appellant's sentencing. The circuit court determined that the witnesses' proposed testimony was inadmissible and did not permit them to testify. The award of costs was an abuse of discretion because the costs were not "reasonably and necessarily related to the prosecution of the crime for which appellant was convicted." Diodato v. State, 150 So.3d 867, 868 (Fla. 4th DCA 2014) (quoting Leyritz v. State, 93 So.3d 1156, 1158 (Fla. 5th DCA 2012)); see also § 938.27(1), Fla. Stat. (2015).
Affirmed in part, reversed in part.'
Warner, Gross and Taylor, JJ., concur.