Florida's Fourth District Court of Appeals is asking the state Supreme Court to determine whether a fundamental error occurred when a criminal defendant virtually attended a sentencing hearing and did not expressly waive his right to be physically present in the courtroom.

The defendant, Jamylin Jamon'e Brown, a then-17-year-old who was charged as an adult, challenged his sentence following an in-courtroom, no contest plea to robbery with a deadly weapon while masked, and burglary of a structure while armed and masked with an assault or battery.