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SANTONI v. STATE

No. 3D14-609.

143 So.3d 1097 (2014)

Nelson SANTONI, Petitioner, v. The STATE of Florida, Respondent.

District Court of Appeal of Florida, Third District.

July 30, 2014.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Carlos J. Martinez , Public Defender, and Manuel Alvarez , Assistant Public Defender, for petitioner.

Pamela Jo Bondi , Attorney General, and Douglas J. Glaid , Senior Assistant Attorney General, for respondent.

Before SUAREZ, LAGOA, and LOGUE, JJ.

LOGUE, J.

Nelson Santoni petitions for a writ of mandamus directing the trial court to accept his guilty plea to second-degree murder. We deny the petition.

The State, by information, charged Santoni with second-degree murder. At the arraignment on the charge, the State informed the trial court that it was seeking a grand jury indictment on first-degree murder, which, unlike second-degree murder, carries as its maximum penalty the sentence of death.

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