LEBEN, J.
A jury convicted Terry Diaz of aggravated failure to appear after he didn't attend the pretrial conference for his felony drug possession charge and didn't turn himself in for over 8 months. Diaz insists on appeal that the evidence was insufficient to convict him because his failure to appear wasn't willful— his attorney told him that he didn't need to attend. He also argues that a mistake instruction should have been given.
Although a mistake...
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