SOSNOWSKY v. STATE

No. 4D07-1326.

989 So.2d 686 (2008)

Arthur SOSNOWSKY, Appellant, v. STATE of Florida, Appellee.

District Court of Appeal of Florida, Fourth District.

July 30, 2008.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Barbara J. Scheffer, Palm Beach Gardens, for appellant.

Bill McCollum, Attorney General, Tallahassee, and Thomas A. Palmer, Assistant Attorney General, West Palm Beach, for appellee.


KLEIN, J.

We reverse appellant's conviction of attempted second degree murder because the court erred in admitting appellant's conversations in which he solicited an undercover officer to kill the victim and another witness. These conversations, which were made after he was arrested and had retained counsel, violated appellant's Sixth Amendment right to counsel.

While appellant was an inmate following his arrest for attempted second degree murder, he tried...

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