HAWKINS v. STATE

No. 5D03-3658.

903 So.2d 1041 (2005)

Jamie Denell HAWKINS, Appellant, v. STATE of Florida, Appellee.

District Court of Appeal of Florida, Fifth District.

June 17, 2005.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

James S. Purdy, Public Defender, and Lyle Hitchens, Assistant Public Defender, Daytona Beach, for Appellant.

Charles J. Crist, Jr., Attorney General, Tallahassee, and Rebecca Roark Wall, Assistant Attorney General, Daytona Beach, for Appellee.


SAWAYA, C.J.

Jamie Hawkins and co-defendant Candy Lovell were tried together for the death of Lovell's daughter. Both defendants appealed and, represented by the same appellate counsel, raised identical issues: (1) that it was reversible error for the trial court to fail to read the definitions of excusable and justifiable homicide, and (2) that the convictions and sentences for both first-degree murder and aggravated manslaughter violated double jeopardy. Lovell...

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