DONLEY v. STATE

No. 95-1879.

694 So.2d 149 (1997)

Eric D. DONLEY, Appellant, v. STATE of Florida, Appellee.

District Court of Appeal of Florida, Fourth District.

June 4, 1997.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Richard L. Jorandby, Public Defender, and Ellen Griffin, Assistant Public Defender, West Palm Beach, for appellant.

Robert A. Butterworth, Attorney General, Tallahassee, and James J. Carney, Assistant Attorney General, West Palm Beach, for appellee.


GROSS, Judge.

We affirm appellant Eric Donley's conviction of manslaughter with a firearm.

Donley was originally charged with one count of second degree murder. The charge was based on a street altercation in which Donley shot the victim, Tyrone Weems. Donley contended that the shooting was in self defense. He claimed that Weems was in a gang whose members dealt drugs and routinely carried guns; that gang members had threatened Donley with physical harm in...

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