Appeal from the County Court for Highlands County.
Anthony L. Ritenour, Judge.
March 22, 2024
STARGEL, J.
Appellant, Eugene Kolek, appeals the judgment and sentence adjudicatinghim guilty of two counts of battery and sentencing him to one year in jail on eachcount to run consecutively. Because Appellant does not raise, nor do we find, anyissue with his judgment and sentence, we affirm.
Appellant also contests the trial court’s post-judgment restitution order,entered after he appealed. We lack jurisdiction to consider Appellant’s argument,given his failure to appeal this order. See Fla. R. App. P. 9.110(b) (“Jurisdiction of
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2the court under this rule must be invoked by filing a notice with the clerk of the lowertribunal within 30 days of rendition of the order to be reviewed . . . .”); see alsoHeming v. State, 48 Fla. L. Weekly D162 (Fla. 1st DCA Jan. 18, 2023); Okashah v.State, 240 So. 3d 904, 905 (Fla. 1st DCA 2018); Studnicka v. State, 679 So. 2d 819,822 (Fla. 3d DCA 1996). Accordingly, we dismiss this portion of the appeal.AFFIRMED IN PART; DISMISSED IN PART.TRAVER, C.J., and BROWNLEE, J., concur.Howard L. “Rex” Dimmig, II, Public Defender, and Tosha Cohen, Assistant PublicDefender, Bartow, for Appellant.Ashley Moody, Attorney General, Tallahassee, and Jonathan S. Tannen, AssistantAttorney General, Tampa, for Appellee.NOT FINAL UNTIL TIME EXPIRES TO FILE MOTION FOR REHEARINGAND DISPOSITION THEREOF IF FILED
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