Joseph D. McPike, Appellant,
v.
STATE of Florida, Appellee.
District Court of Appeal of Florida, Second District.
*292 C. Ray McDaniel, Bartow, for appellant.
Jim Smith, Atty. Gen., Tallahassee, and Robert J. Krauss, Asst. Atty. Gen., Tampa, for appellee.
SCHOONOVER, Judge.
Appellant, Joseph D. McPike, appeals from the judgments and sentences entered against him for twenty-two counts of grand theft. We find that the trial court erred in imposing a special condition of probation upon appellant, but affirm because appellant failed to make a contemporaneous objection to the condition at sentencing.
Appellant, a licensed physician, was charged with, and convicted of, twenty-two counts of grand theft. The charges arose out of appellant's employment as Medical Director at Polk General Hospital and not directly from the practice of medicine. Appellant's combined sentences consisted of three years in state prison followed by ten years of probation.
The presentence investigation revealed that in 1970 appellant was admitted to a hospital because of an embolism in one of his lungs. While hospitalized he became addicted to demerol that had been administered to him for pain. Appellant was treated for this condition and the record does not reflect any drug abuse since that time. Based upon this information, the court found there existed a suggestion of drug abuse. It then imposed a condition of probation prohibiting appellant from prescribing medicine to others and, unless prescribed by another doctor, from administering medicine to himself. The court also required appellant to make restitution in the amount of $40,199 and to pay costs in the amount of $9461.28. This appeal timely followed.
We find no error in the court's order requiring appellant to make restitution and to pay costs. We find, however, that the condition prohibiting appellant from writing medical prescriptions while on probation is improper because it is not reasonably related to appellant's rehabilitation and does not provide a standard of conduct essential to protection of the public. See Grubbs v. State,
Normally, we would remand this case for correction of the error, but we are precluded from doing so here because appellant failed to make a contemporaneous objection to the condition in the trial court. Young v. State,
AFFIRMED.
CAMPBELL, A.C.J., and LEHAN, J., concur.
