Court Opinion

ID: 9769122
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-29 14:34:13.791908+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T07:30:55.205712
License: Public Domain

KELLER, Judge,
concurring.
I join part IV only of the majority opinion. Because the fine was never probated, it was appropriately included in the trial court’s judgment revoking probation. I do not join Parts I through III because they are unnecessary to the disposition of this ease. Whether the oral or written judgment revoking probation controls is of no consequence to *330whether the fine was properly included in the judgment because the fine had never been probated. This fact becomes obvious when the majority opinion concludes that the oral pronouncement, which did not include the fine, controls but then decides that the fine is included anyway because it had never been probated. That the fine was never probated is the State’s only contention in its petition for discretionary review before this Court. The State makes no argument whatsoever concerning whether the oral pronouncement controls over the written judgment or vice versa. The “oral pronouncement versus written judgment” issue was not raised and has no bearing on the disposition of this case. That makes parts I through III of the majority opinion pure dicta. Hence, I can only join part IV.
McCORMICK, P.J., HOLLAND, and WOMACK, JJ., join.