IVALDI v. STATE

No. 3D12-370.

88 So.3d 334 (2012)

Edwin Fernando IVALDI, Petitioner, v. The STATE of Florida, Respondent.

District Court of Appeal of Florida, Third District.

May 2, 2012.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Edwin Fernando Ivaldi , in proper person.

Pamela Jo Bondi , Attorney General, and Michael W. Mervine , Assistant Attorney General, for respondent.

Before ROTHENBERG and SALTER, JJ., and SCHWARTZ, Senior Judge.


ROTHENBERG, J.

The defendant, Edwin Ivaldi ("Ivaldi"), who was convicted of second degree murder with a firearm, seeks habeas corpus relief claiming his appellate counsel was ineffective because he failed to raise on direct appeal the defective manslaughter by intentional act instruction provided to the jury. Fundamental error occurred and reversal of the second degree murder conviction is mandated because: the instruction given was exactly the same instruction the...

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