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Date Created: 2024-03-27 18:03:30.755183+00
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FIRST DISTRICT COURT OF APPEAL
                STATE OF FLORIDA
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                         No. 1D2022-1945
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DAVID JOHN RHODES,

    Appellant,

    v.

STATE OF FLORIDA,

    Appellee.
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On appeal from the Circuit Court for Alachua County.
James M. Colaw, Judge.

                         March 27, 2024

                 ON MOTION FOR WRITTEN OPINION

PER CURIAM.

     We grant Appellant’s motion for written opinion, withdraw
our per curiam affirmance dated February 12, 2024, and substitute
the following opinion in its place. Appellant’s motion filed
February 23, 2024, is otherwise denied.

     David John Rhodes appeals his judgment and sentence for
DUI manslaughter. He raises three issues on appeal. As to the first
two issues, we affirm without further comment. In his third issue,
Rhodes argues that the trial court erred by imposing a $100 cost of
prosecution under section 938.27, Florida Statutes, without first
receiving a request from the State. But as this Court has recently
explained, “the [$100] cost for the state attorney is a minimum cost
that is mandated by subsection (8) and not an ‘investigative’ cost
incurred by an agency, as described in § 938.27(1), which can only
be imposed ‘if requested’ by the agency.” Parks v. State, 371 So. 3d
392, 392–93 (Fla. 1st DCA 2023), review granted, SC2023-1355,
2024 WL 370043 (Fla. Jan. 31, 2024). On the facts presented, this
cost was imposed properly.

    AFFIRMED.

LEWIS, RAY, and NORDBY, JJ., concur.

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    Not final until disposition of any timely and
    authorized motion under Fla. R. App. P. 9.330 or
    9.331.
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Jessica J. Yeary, Public Defender, and David Alan Henson,
Assistant Public Defender, Tallahassee, for Appellant.

Ashley Moody, Attorney General, and Damaris E. Reynolds,
Assistant Attorney General, Tallahassee, for Appellee.

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