Title: State of Florida v. Ricky Allen Dodson
Citation: N/A
Docket Number: SC93-077
State: Florida
Issuer: Florida Supreme Court
Date: June 15, 2000

Supreme Court of Florida
 
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No. SC93077
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STATE OF FLORIDA,
Petitioner,
vs.
RICKY ALLEN DODSON,
Respondent.
[June 15, 2000]
PER CURIAM.
We have for review Dodson v. State, 710 So. 2d 159 (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
-2-
PROCEDURE.
For the reasons expressed in our opinion in Maddox v. State, 25 Fla. L. Weekly
S367 (Fla. May 11, 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.
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. 1D97-526 
(Okaloosa County)
Robert A. Butterworth, Attorney General, James W. Rogers, Bureau Chief, Criminal
Appeals, and J. Ray Poole, Assistant Attorney General, Tallahassee, Florida,
for Petitioner
Nancy A. Daniels, Public Defender, and Glen P. Gifford, Assistant Public Defender,
Second Judicial Circuit, Tallahassee, Florida,
for Respondent