Perry Walter Parks v. State of Florida
CourtDistrict Court of Appeal of Florida
Date FiledAugust 12, 2026
Docket4D2025-1012
StatusPublished
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DISTRICT COURT OF APPEAL OF THE STATE OF FLORIDA
FOURTH DISTRICT
PERRY WALTER PARKS,
Appellant,
v.
STATE OF FLORIDA,
Appellee.
No. 4D2025-1012
[August 12, 2026]
Appeal from the Circuit Court for the Nineteenth Judicial Circuit, St.
Lucie County; Lawrence Michael Mirman, Judge; L.T. Case No.
562023CF001034AXXXXX.
Daniel Eisinger, Public Defender, and Alan T. Lipson, Assistant Public
Defender, West Palm Beach, for appellant.
James Uthmeier, Attorney General, Tallahassee, and Kimberly T.
Acuña, Senior Assistant Attorney General, West Palm Beach, for appellee.
ON CONFESSION OF ERROR
KLINGENSMITH, J.
Appellant Perry Walter Parks appeals his conviction and sentence
following a jury trial in which he was adjudicated guilty of three counts:
possession of a firearm or ammunition by a convicted felon, possession
with the intent to sell or deliver MDPV, and possession of a substituted
cathinone. We affirm on all issues raised except whether the trial court
erred in denying Appellant’s motion to correct sentence as to prosecution
costs. On this issue, we agree with Appellant in part and reverse that
portion of his sentence.
The trial court sentenced Appellant following the jury’s verdict of guilty
on all three counts. As part of the sentencing, the State initially
recommended $200 for prosecution costs, but then later requested $100
for prosecution costs. The trial court orally imposed the $100 mandatory
prosecution costs, but the written cost order imposed $200 based on the
State’s initial recommendation.
Appellant moved to correct his sentence under Florida Rule of Criminal
Procedure 3.800(b)(2) challenging the $200 prosecution costs. He argued
that the oral pronouncement of the prosecution costs controls over what
was reflected in the written judgment of costs. Appellant’s motion was
deemed denied when the trial court did not rule on it within sixty days.
Maestas v. State, 76 So. 3d 991, 993 n.1 (Fla. 4th DCA 2011) (first citing
Sessions v. State, 907 So. 2d 572, 573 (Fla. 1st DCA 2003); then citing
Wilson v. State, 853 So. 2d 1119 (Fla. 4th DCA 2003)).
We review scrivener’s errors in sentencing and prosecution costs de
novo. Sols v. State, 310 So. 3d 422, 424 (Fla. 4th DCA 2021) (quoting Pitts
v. State, 202 So. 3d 882, 884 (Fla. 4th DCA 2016)).
The State concedes that the trial court erred by imposing the $200
prosecution costs instead of the $100 which it had orally pronounced. An
allegation asserting a difference between the oral pronouncement and the
written judgment is sufficient under rule 3.800(a) to correct an illegal
sentence. Williams v. State, 957 So. 2d 600, 603 (Fla. 2007). We have
consistently held that “[w]here a trial court’s written sentencing order
conflicts with the oral pronouncement, the oral pronouncement controls.”
Wilson v. State, 410 So. 3d 1211, 1211 (Fla. 4th DCA 2025) (quoting
Santiago v. State, 133 So. 3d 1159, 1167 (Fla. 4th DCA 2014)).
Therefore, we reverse and remand to the trial court with instructions to
strike the $200 prosecution costs and impose the $100 mandatory
minimum prosecution fees. We affirm on all other issues without
comment, including Appellant’s claim he was entitled to a twelve-person
jury. See Guzman v. State, 350 So. 3d 72, 73 (Fla. 4th DCA 2022), rev.
denied, No. SC2022-1597, 2023 WL 3830251 (Fla. June 6, 2023), cert.
denied, 144 S. Ct. 2595 (2024).
Affirmed in part, reversed in part and remanded.
CIKLIN and CONNER, JJ., concur.
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Not final until disposition of timely-filed motion for rehearing.
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