STATE v. WILKINSON

No. 98-1324

724 So.2d 614 (1998)

STATE of Florida, Appellant, v. Kenneth WILKINSON, Jr., Appellee.

District Court of Appeal of Florida, Fifth District.

December 23, 1998.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Robert A. Butterworth, Attorney General, Tallahassee, and Wesley Heidt, Assistant Attorney General, Daytona Beach, for Appellant.

Esteban F. Scornik of McDonough, O'Dell, Beers and Wieland, Orlando, for Appellee, Kenneth Cread Wilkinson, Jr.


HARRIS, J.

Wilkinson, while standing in the rear of a pickup truck, fired his rifle across private land at what he believed to be a grazing deer. In fact, it was a decoy deer deployed by law enforcement to curtail poaching that had been going on in the area. When approached, Wilkinson stated, "I know I screwed up," "It was just too good to be true," and "I should not have shot that deer."

Wilkinson filed a c-4 motion alleging that he was unaware that the property...

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