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FIRST DISTRICT COURT OF APPEAL
                STATE OF FLORIDA
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                        No. 1D2022-2949
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DAVID LAWRENCE POWELL,

    Appellant,

    v.

STATE OF FLORIDA,

    Appellee.
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On appeal from the Circuit Court for Escambia County.
Jennie Kinsey, Judge.

                         January 3, 2024

PER CURIAM.

     Appellant appeals from the trial court’s order sentencing him
to the statutory maximum of five years in prison after he violated
probation. Appellant argues that the court erred when it imposed
the $100 cost of prosecution without a request from the State and
failed to make statutorily required written findings of fact after
finding him to be a violent felony offender of special concern.

    We affirm Appellant’s challenge of the costs of prosecution in
accordance with Parks v. State, 48 Fla. L. Weekly D1524 (Fla. 1st
DCA Aug. 2, 2023). We reverse, however, as to Appellant’s second
argument. As the State’s brief concedes, trial courts must make
written findings as to whether a violent felony offender of special
concern poses a danger to the community. § 948.06(8)(e), Fla. Stat.
Such findings are absent here. Accordingly, we remand for the
entry of a written order making the required statutory findings.
See Gettis v. State, 289 So. 3d 560 (Fla. 1st DCA 2020); Glenn v.
State, 219 So. 3d 1010 (Fla. 1st DCA 2017).

    AFFIRMED in part, REVERSED in part, and REMANDED.

OSTERHAUS, C.J., and ROWE and BILBREY, 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 Tyler Kemper Payne,
Assistant Public Defender, Tallahassee, for Appellant.

Ashley Moody, Attorney General, and Julian E. Markham,
Assistant Attorney General, Tallahassee, for Appellee.

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