District Court of Appeal of Florida

A restitution order entered after defendant pleaded guilty to burglary of a structure is reversed where the trial court conducted the restitution hearing in defendant-s absence without competent, substantial evidence to establish that defendant had waived his right to be present or that he had voluntarily absented himself from the hearing.

Appellate Information

• Decided 12/20/2006
• Published 12/20/2006

Judges

• STRINGER, Judge.

Court

• District Court of Appeal of Florida

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• James Marion Moorman, Public Defender, and Maureen E. Surber, Assistant Public Defender, Bartow, for Appellant.


• For Appellees:
  
• Charles J. Crist, Jr., Attorney General, Tallahassee, and Susan D. Dunlevy, Assistant Attorney General, Tampa, for Appellee.