Title: Wavell Heird v. State of Florida
Citation: N/A
Docket Number: SC94-348
State: Florida
Issuer: Florida Supreme Court
Date: June 15, 2000

Supreme Court of Florida
 
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No. SC94348
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WAVELL HEIRD,
Petitioner,
vs.
STATE OF FLORIDA,
Respondent.
[June 15, 2000]
PER CURIAM.
We have for review a decision of the First District Court of Appeal certifying
the following question to be one of great public importance:
DOES THE FAILURE OF THE TRIAL COURT TO
ORALLY PRONOUNCE EACH STATUTORILY
AUTHORIZED COST INDIVIDUALLY AT THE TIME
OF SENTENCING CONSTITUTE FUNDAMENTAL
ERROR?
 
Heird v. State, 734 So. 2d 1059 (Fla. 1st DCA 1998).  We have jurisdiction.  See
art. V, § 3(b)(4), Fla. Const.  For the reasons expressed in our opinion in Maddox v.
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State, 25 Fla. L. Weekly S367 (Fla. May 11, 2000), we answer the certified
question in the negative.  Although Heird argues that the record on appeal does not
establish that he was in fact served with the written sentencing order, this type of
claim is inappropriate for direct appeal.  See id. at S374 n.13.  We approve 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. 1D97-1385 
(Jackson County)
Nancy A. Daniels, Public Defender, and Fred Parker Bingham, II, Assistant Public
Defender, Second Judicial Circuit, Tallahassee, Florida, 
for Petitioner
Robert A. Butterworth, Attorney General, James W. Rogers, Bureau Chief, Criminal
Appeals, and Trisha E. Meggs, Assistant Attorney General, Tallahassee, Florida, 
 
for Respondent