BRENDAN B. HORAN, APPELLANT,
v.
STATE OF FLORIDA, APPELLEE

Fla. 1st DCA | 2008-09-29
No. 1D05-0258
WEBSTER, LEWIS, and HAWKES, JJ., concur.
990 So. 2d 1264 Florida District Court of Appeal, First District (2008)


Opinion of the Court
PER CURIAM.

PER CURIAM.

In this direct criminal appeal, we affirm appellant’s conviction and sentence. While actions on the part of an assistant state attorney who was a spectator not involved in the trial may well have been unprofessional, they did not constitute reversible error, as prosecutorial misconduct or otherwise. However, because appellant had filed his notice of appeal before the trial court entered its order determining the amount of restitution, the trial court was without jurisdiction to enter that order, and we are constrained to reverse it. See Williams v. State, 952 So. 2d 616 (Fla. 1st DCA 2007) (citing Brantley v. State, 723 So. 2d 909 (Fla. 1st DCA 1999)). On return of jurisdiction to the trial court, that court is free to conduct another restitution hearing. Id. at 617.

AFFIRMED IN PART; REVERSED IN PART; and REMANDED, with directions.

WEBSTER, LEWIS, and HAWKES, JJ., concur.


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