KENNA LEFFLER
v.
STATE OF FLORIDA

Fla. 4th DCA | 2025-02-26
No. 2024-1336
Buchanan, J., May, J., Damoorgian, J., Gerber, J.
2025 FL 1806 Florida District Court of Appeal, Fourth District (2025)

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Holding

Attempted second-degree murder is a valid crime in Florida.


Headnotes

[1] Attempted second-degree murder is a cognizable crime under Florida law.

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Key Quotes

“the crime of attempted second-degree murder does exist in Florida”

Brown v. State, 790 So. 2d 389, 390 (Fla. 2000)

Facts & Procedural History

Kenna Leffler was convicted in the Circuit Court for the Nineteenth Judicial Circuit, Okeechobee County, of attempted second-degree murder.…

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Opinion of the Court
Gerber

DISTRICT COURT OF APPEAL OF THE STATE OF FLORIDA

FOURTH DISTRICT

KENNA LEFFLER, Appellant,

v.

STATE OF FLORIDA, Appellee.

No. 4D2024-1336

[February 26, 2025]

Appeal from the Circuit Court for the Nineteenth Judicial Circuit, Okeechobee County; Laurie E. Buchanan, Judge; L.T. Case No. 472023CF000027A.

Daniel Eisinger, Public Defender, and Erika Follmer, Assistant Public Defender, West Palm Beach, for appellant.

James Uthmeier, Attorney General, Tallahassee, and Sorraya M. Solages-Jones, Senior Assistant Attorney General, West Palm Beach, for appellee.

PER CURIAM.

Affirmed. See Brown v. State, 790 So. 2d 389, 390 (Fla. 2000) (“the crime of attempted second-degree murder does exist in Florida”); Guzman v. State, 350 So. 3d 72 (Fla. 4th DCA 2022), rev. denied, No. SC2022-1597, 2023 WL 3830251 (Fla. June 6, 2023), cert. denied, 144 S. Ct. 2595, 219 L. Ed. 2d 1247 (U.S. May 28, 2024).

MAY, DAMOORGIAN and GERBER, JJ., concur.

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Not final until disposition of timely filed motion for rehearing.


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