CAHOURS v. STATE

No. 1D13-1562.

147 So.3d 574 (2014)

Jeremiah Paul CAHOURS, Appellant, v. STATE of Florida, Appellee.

District Court of Appeal of Florida, First District.

Rehearing Denied October 1, 2014.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Nancy A. Daniels , Public Defender, and M.J. Lord , Assistant Public Defender, Tallahassee, for Appellant.

Pamela Jo Bondi , Attorney General, and Wesley Paxson, III , Assistant Attorney General, Tallahassee, for Appellee.


WOLF, J.

Appellant raises several issues challenging his convictions for leaving the scene of a crash involving death and vehicular homicide.

We affirm on all issues but one. We find that the standard jury instruction for the offense of leaving the scene of a crash involving death misstates the law with regards to the requisite level of knowledge that a crash occurred. We, therefore, reverse appellant's conviction as to that count and remand for a new trial...

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