ADAMS v. STATE

No. 4D10-432.

80 So.3d 426 (2012)

James ADAMS, Appellant, v. STATE of Florida, Appellee.

District Court of Appeal of Florida, Fourth District.

February 15, 2012.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Carey Haughwout , Public Defender, and Tatjana Ostapoff , Assistant Public Defender, West Palm Beach, for appellant.

Pamela Jo Bondi , Attorney General, Tallahassee, and Laura Fisher , Assistant Attorney General, West Palm Beach, for appellee.


PER CURIAM.

James Adams was tried by jury and convicted of second degree murder, a lesser included offense of the charged premeditated murder. The evidence at trial established that, in the weeks prior to the victim's death, the defendant and his girlfriend had been staying with the victim, Elijah Brown, in Brown's hotel room and that all three were drug users. Brown was beaten to death with a four-by-four board and both the defendant's girlfriend and stepmother testified...

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