Florida District Courts of Appeal, 2011

Sims v. State

Sims v. State
Florida District Courts of Appeal · Decided March 23, 2011 · Polen, Hazouri, Ciklin
82 So. 3d 825; 2011 WL 1004550; 2011 Fla. App. LEXIS 3906 (Southern Reporter, Third Series)

Sims v. State

Opinion

PER CURIAM.

Appellant, Arthur Sims, argues that his trial counsel was ineffective in two respects and that the trial court erred in imposing a public defender fee without advising Sims of his right to contest the amount. We affirm Sims’s conviction in this direct appeal because his arguments that his counsel was ineffective are not apparent on the face of the record. See Aversano v. State, 966 So.2d 493, 494-95 (Fla. 4th DCA 2007). We do, however, strike the public defender fee and remand for a hearing for Sims to contest the amount of the public defender fee. See Johnson v. State, 944 So.2d 474, 477 (Fla. 4th DCA 2006) (holding that failure to advise defendant of his right to contest a public defender fee pursuant to Florida Rule of Criminal Procedure 3.720 requires that fee “must be stricken, without prejudice to being reimposed on remand after the proper procedure is followed”). The state concedes the error.

Affirmed in part; remanded in part.

POLEN, HAZOURI and CIKLIN, JJ., concur.

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