Title: State v. Vamper
Citation: 579 So. 2d 730
Docket Number: 76165
State: Florida
Issuer: Florida Supreme Court
Date: May 9, 1991

579 So. 2d 730 (1991)
STATE of Florida, Petitioner,
v.
Daniel Laverne VAMPER, Respondent.
No. 76165.

Supreme Court of Florida.
May 9, 1991.
Robert A. Butterworth, Atty. Gen., and Anita J. Gay, Asst. Atty. Gen., Miami, for petitioner.
Bennett H. Brummer, Public Defender and Valerie Jones, Asst. Public Defender, Eleventh Judicial Circuit, Miami, for respondent.
McDONALD, Justice.
In Vamper v. State, 562 So. 2d 816, 818 (Fla. 3d DCA 1990), the district court certified the following question as being of great public importance:
We have jurisdiction. Art. V, § 3(b)(4), Fla. Const. We considered a similar question in State v. Beasley, 580 So. 2d 139 (Fla. 1991), and held that statutorily mandated costs may be imposed on an indigent defendant without actual notice and without a determination, at time of imposition, of the defendant's ability to pay. Therefore, we answer the certified question in the negative and approve the district court's affirmance of the assessment of statutory costs.
It is so ordered.
SHAW, C.J., and OVERTON, BARKETT, GRIMES, KOGAN and HARDING, JJ., concur.