THOMAS JUANTE BURDINE
v.
STATE OF FLORIDA
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A trial court's imposition of investigative costs must be orally pronounced at sentencing to be valid.
[1] Investigative costs imposed as part of a criminal sentence must be orally pronounced at sentencing to be valid; costs not orally pronounced must be struck from the judgme…
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The court cited Rogers v. State, 289 So. 3d 548, 549–50 (Fla. 2020), for the principle that investigative costs not orally pronounced must be removed.
Thomas Juante Burdine was convicted and sentenced in Duval County. The trial court imposed a $50 cost of investigation as part of the sentence.…
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FIFTH DISTRICT COURT OF APPEAL
STATE OF FLORIDA
Case No. 5D2025-2202 L.T. Case No. 16-2025-MM-2843-A
THOMAS JUANTE BURDINE, Appellant,
V.
STATE OF FLORIDA, Appellee.
On appeal from the County Court for Duval County. Mose Levon Floyd, Judge.
Charlie Cofer, Public Defender, and Elizabeth Hogan Webb, Assistant Public Defender, Jacksonville, for Appellant.
James Uthmeier, Attorney General, and Darcy Townsend, Assistant Attorney General, Tallahassee, for Appellee.
October 16, 2026
PER CURIAM.
In this Anders¹ appeal, we affirm Appellant's judgment and sentence. However, we remand for entry of a corrected judgment striking the $50 cost of investigation as the cost of investigation was not orally pronounced at sentencing. See Rogers v. State, 289
So. 3d 548, 549–50 (Fla. 2020) (reversing with directions to correct an order to remove investigative costs that were not orally pronounced).
AFFIRMED; and REMANDED with instructions.
MAKAR, SOUD, and MACIVER, JJ., concur.