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Fla. Dist. Ct. App. · 1990 · confidence medium
The supreme court stated in State v. Champe, 373 So.2d 874, 880 (Fla. 1978), "[t]he five per cent surcharge ... may quite properly be considered as a form of punishment for the offense." In LaRue v. State, 397 So.2d 1136, 1138 (Fla. 1981), the supreme court held unconstitutional a provision of this section that applied the surcharge to bail bonds because "the ultimate effect of [the bail surcharge was to impose] a pretrial cost upon every defendant rather than a posttrial penalty upon those actually found guilty." On remand, then, the trial court shall consider the imposition of costs under se…
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STATE of Florida
v.
Gregory Ross MacKAY
No. 58430.
Supreme Court of Florida.
Apr 30, 1981.
397 So. 2d 1136
Jim Smith, Atty. Gen., and Stewart J. Bellus, Asst. Atty. Gen., West Palm Beach, for appellant., Peter F. K. Baraban, Miami, for appellee.
Adkins, Alderman, Boyd, England, McDonald, Overton, Sundberg.
Published
PER CURIAM.

The order of the Circuit Court of the Seventeenth Judicial Circuit granting ap-pellee’s motion to dismiss and declaring section 893.135, Florida Statutes (1979), unconstitutional is reversed, and the cause remanded for further proceedings not inconsistent with State v. Benitez, 395 So.2d 514 (Fla.1981).

It is so ordered.

SUNDBERG, C. J., and ADKINS, BOYD, OVERTON, ENGLAND, ALDERMAN and McDONALD, JJ., concur.