MCCLAIN v. STATE (2025)

District Court of Appeal of Florida, Fifth District.

Jason Lavon MCCLAIN, Appellant, v. STATE of Florida, Appellee.

Case No. 5D2024-2955

Decided: October 17, 2025

Matthew J. Metz, Public Defender, and Evan Altes, Assistant Public Defender, Daytona Beach, for Appellant. James Uthmeier, Attorney General, Tallahassee, and Kaylee D. Tatman, Assistant Attorney General, Daytona Beach, for Appellee.

In this Anders ¹ case, Appellant appeals his judgment and sentence for Resisting An Officer Without Violence following a bench trial. We affirm Appellant's judgment and sentence but remand for entry of a corrected judgment which strikes the $50 Cost of Investigation because the Appellee never requested the same be imposed by the trial judge. See Richards v. State, 288 So. 3d 574, 577 (Fla. 2020) (“[T]he State must request investigative costs to make a defendant liable for those costs ․”); Somers v. State, No. 5D2024-2640, 2025 WL 2370675, at *1 (Fla. 5th DCA Aug. 15, 2025) (striking cost of investigation when there was no request by the State).

Affirmed in part; Reversed in part; and Remanded with instructions.

FOOTNOTES

1. Anders v. California, 386 U.S. 738 (1967).

Wallis, J.

Edwards and Eisnaugle, JJ., concur.

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