CORIOLAN v. STATE

No. 4D09-3891.

77 So.3d 840 (2012)

Jean L. CORIOLAN, Appellant, v. STATE of Florida, Appellee.

District Court of Appeal of Florida, Fourth District.

January 11, 2012.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Antony P. Ryan , Regional Counsel, and Randall Berman , Senior Assistant Regional Counsel, Office of Criminal Conflict and Civil Regional Counsel, West Palm Beach, for appellant.

Pamela Jo Bondi , Attorney General, Tallahassee, and Jeanine M. Germanowicz , Assistant Attorney General, West Palm Beach, for appellee.


GERBER, J.

After considering the five arguments which the defendant raises in this appeal, we affirm the defendant's conviction and sentence for attempted second degree murder. We write to address only the defendant's argument that the trial court committed fundamental error in giving the standard jury instruction on attempted manslaughter which contains language regarding the defendant "commit[ing] an act which was intended to cause the death of" the victim. We affirm...

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