Florida District Courts of Appeal, 1996

Sparkes v. State

Sparkes v. State
Florida District Courts of Appeal · Decided November 20, 1996 · Dell, Glickstein, Gunther
682 So. 2d 1232; 1996 Fla. App. LEXIS 12331; 1996 WL 670559 (Southern Reporter, Second Series)

Sparkes v. State

Opinion of the Court

PER CURIAM.

We affirm the trial court’s orders of restitution that require appellant to pay the victim’s family for out-of-pocket expenses and *1233reimbursement to the Florida Crimes Compensation Fund. See § 960.17, Fla. Stat. (Supp. 1994). We reverse the order requiring appellant to pay investigative costs to the Forensic Automobile Investigation as an item of restitution and remand this cause to the trial court with instructions to enter an order properly assessing that payment as a cost of investigation. Staudt v. State, 616 So.2d 600 (Fla. 4th DCA 1993); Brown v. State, 591 So.2d 1069 (Fla. 4th DCA 1991).

AFFIRMED IN PART; REVERSED IN PART and REMANDED.

GUNTHER, C.J., and GLICKSTEIN and DELL, JJ., concur.

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