ROMANS v. STATE

No. 4D14-4817.

221 So.3d 647 (2017)

Matthew ROMANS, Appellant, v. STATE of Florida, Appellee.

District Court of Appeal of Florida, Fourth District.

May 31, 2017.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Carey Haughwout , Public Defender, and Zainabu Rumala , Nora Gay , and Erika Follmer , Assistant Public Defenders, West Palm Beach, for appellant.

Pamela Jo Bondi , Attorney General, Tallahassee, and Jessenia J. Concepcion , Assistant Attorney General, West Palm Beach, for appellee.


In this appeal, appellant claims the trial court erred in (1) excluding a character witness from appellant's workplace, (2) not instructing the jury on justifiable use of deadly force, (3) denying a motion for downward departure, and (4) imposing drug offender probation. We affirm the first two issues. As to the third issue, which raised...

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