BEAUFORD v. STATE (2023)

District Court of Appeal of Florida, Fourth District.

James Murray BEAUFORD, Appellant, v. STATE of Florida, Appellee.

No. 4D2023-1320

Decided: December 20, 2023

James Murray Beauford, Wewahitchka, pro se. No appearance for appellee.

We affirm Appellant's convictions and sentences without further comment. We reverse, however, the imposition of investigative costs as those costs were never requested by the State or by any investigating law enforcement agency. See Phillips v. State, 352 So. 3d 545, 545 (Fla. 1st DCA 2022) (“We affirm this appeal in all respects, except that the trial court's imposition of the $50 cost of investigation is unlawful under section 938.27, Fla. Stat. (2019) because no agency requested them.”). On remand, the trial court shall “enter an amended judgment and sentence that strikes or deletes the investigative costs, without the State being entitled to have these costs reimposed.” Smith v. State, 291 So. 3d 637, 637 (Fla. 5th DCA 2020).

Affirmed in part, reversed in part, and remanded with instructions.

Per Curiam.

Damoorgian, Gerber and Kuntz, JJ., concur.

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