GALAVIS v. STATE

No. 4D08-4215.

28 So.3d 176 (2010)

Roberto GALAVIS, Appellant, v. STATE of Florida, Appellee.

District Court of Appeal of Florida, Fourth District.

February 17, 2010.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Carey Haughwout, Public Defender, and Richard B. Greene, Assistant Public Defender, West Palm Beach, for appellant.

Bill McCollum, Attorney General, Tallahassee, and Melanie Dale Surber, Assistant Attorney General, West Palm Beach, for appellee.


WARNER, J.

Appellant, Roberto Galavis, appeals his conviction and sentence for attempted kidnapping. He maintains that the state failed to prove an essential element of intent, and the trial court should have granted his motion for judgment of acquittal. We affirm, concluding that the state presented circumstantial evidence from which the jury could infer the necessary intent and which was inconsistent with any reasonable hypothesis of innocence.

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