Case Name: STATE of Florida, Petitioner, v. Ezekias MIKE, Respondent
Court: Florida Supreme Court
Jurisdiction: Florida
Decision Date: 2000-06-15
Citations: 760 So. 2d 145
Docket Number: No. SC93163
Parties: STATE of Florida, Petitioner, v. Ezekias MIKE, Respondent.
Judges: HARDING, C.J., and SHAW, WELLS, ANSTEAD, PARIENTE, LEWIS and QUINCE, JJ., concur.
Reporter: Southern Reporter, Second Series
Volume: 760
Pages: 145–145

Head Matter:
STATE of Florida, Petitioner, v. Ezekias MIKE, Respondent.
No. SC93163.
Supreme Court of Florida.
June 15, 2000.
Robert A. Butterworth, Attorney General, James W. Rogers, Bureau Chief, Criminal Appeals, and L. Michael Billmeier, Assistant Attorney General, Tallahassee, Florida, for Petitioner.
Nancy A. Daniels, Public Defender, and Carol Ann Turner, Assistant Public Defender, Second Judicial Circuit, Tallahassee, Florida, for Respondent.

Opinion:
PER CURIAM.
We have for review Mike v. State, 708 So.2d 1042 (Fla. 1st DCA 1998), wherein the First District certified the following question to be one of great public importance:
WHETHER THE WRONGFUL IMPOSITION OF A PUBLIC DEFENDER'S LIEN CONSTITUTES FUNDAMENTAL ERROR WHICH MAY BE CHALLENGED ON DIRECT APPEAL WITHOUT HAVING BEEN PRESENTED TO THE TRIAL COURT, IN LIGHT OF SECTION 924.051(3), FLORIDA STATUTES (SUPP.1996), AND AMENDED RULE 3.800(B), FLORIDA RULES OF CRIMINAL PROCEDURE.
For the reasons expressed in our opinion in Maddox v. State, 760 So.2d 89 (Fla.2000), we answer the certified question in the negative. We quash 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.