JACQUES v. STATE

No. 4D01-11.

883 So.2d 902 (2004)

Guerry Jean JACQUES, Appellant, v. STATE of Florida, Appellee.

District Court of Appeal of Florida, Fourth District.

October 6, 2004.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Carey Haughwout, Public Defender, and Alan T. Lipson, Assistant Public Defender, West Palm Beach, and Guerry Jean Jacques, pro se, for appellant.

Charles J. Crist, Jr., Attorney General, Tallahassee, and Donna M. Hoffmann, Assistant Attorney General, West Palm Beach, for appellee.


WARNER, J.

The issue presented in this appeal from convictions of attempted first degree murder and shooting into an occupied vehicle is whether the trial court's remarks rebuking the defense attorney for what the court thought was an erroneous recitation of evidence amounted to fundamental error. Because the trial court's comments went to the very heart of the defense, we hold that fundamental error occurred and reverse.

Appellant, Guerry Jean Jacques, was...

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