PER CURIAM.
The defendant appeals his conviction and sentence for aggravated battery. We agree with the defendant that the trial court committed fundamental error by instructing the jury that the defendant's use of force was not justifiable if he was attempting to commit, committing, or escaping after the commission of aggravated battery. This instruction would only have been appropriate had the defendant been engaged in some other forcible felony. In the absence...
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