DENNIS v. STATE

No. 96-2278.

696 So.2d 1280 (1997)

Shawanna DENNIS, Appellant, v. STATE of Florida, Appellee.

District Court of Appeal of Florida, Fourth District.

July 16, 1997.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Richard L. Jorandby, Public Defender, and Joseph R. Chloupek, Assistant Public Defender, West Palm Beach, for appellant.

Robert A. Butterworth, Attorney General, Tallahassee, and Patricia Ann Ash, Assistant Attorney General, West Palm Beach, for appellee.


GROSS, Judge.

Shawanna Dennis appeals her conviction of second degree murder after a jury trial. On the major point on appeal, we affirm the conviction without prejudice to her pursuit of an ineffective assistance of counsel claim in a motion for postconviction relief.

At the age of 15, Dennis stabbed her 28-year old boyfriend, Isaac McNeil. The two had had a sexual relationship for two years prior to the stabbing. Several days before the murder, Dennis loaned...

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