PROVOW v. STATE

No. 4D08-594.

14 So.3d 1134 (2009)

Matthew PROVOW, Appellant, v. STATE of Florida, Appellee.

District Court of Appeal of Florida, Fourth District.

June 17, 2009.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Jason T. Forman of Law Offices of Jason T. Forman, P.A., Fort Lauderdale, for appellant.

Bill McCollum, Attorney General, Tallahassee, and Diane F. Medley, Assistant Attorney General, West Palm Beach, for appellee.


FARMER, J.

We affirm defendant's conviction, writing to explain why the use of the locution and/or in both the charge and a jury instruction in this case does not constitute error.

Among other things, defendant was charged with at once resisting two police officers whose names were joined in the charge by the compound conjunctive/disjunctive and/or. At trial the State presented testimony that defendant...

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