JEFRO T. PHILLIPS
v.
STATE OF FLORIDA

Fla. 4th DCA | 2018-02-21
No. 16-4006
Kelley, J., Gerber, C.J., Gross, J., Kuntz, J.
238 So. 3d 308 Florida District Court of Appeal, Fourth District (2018)

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Holding

The trial court did not err in giving the standard jury instruction that 'union means contact.'


Headnotes

[1] A trial court does not err in instructing a jury that 'union means contact' in the context of the charged offense.

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Jefro T. Phillips was convicted in the Circuit Court for the Fifteenth Judicial Circuit, Palm Beach County. The trial court provided a jury instructio…

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Opinion of the Court
Gerber

DISTRICT COURT OF APPEAL OF THE STATE OF FLORIDA

FOURTH DISTRICT

JEFRO T. PHILLIPS, Appellant,

v.

STATE OF FLORIDA, Appellee.

No. 4D16-4006

[February 21, 2018]

Appeal from the Circuit Court for the Fifteenth Judicial Circuit, Palm Beach County; Glenn D. Kelley, Judge; L.T. Case No. 14CF010436AMB.

Carey Haughwout, Public Defender, and Peggy Natale, Assistant Public Defender, West Palm Beach, for appellant.

Pamela Jo Bondi, Attorney General, Tallahassee, and Georgina Jimenez-Orosa, Assistant Attorney General, West Palm Beach, for appellee.

PER CURIAM.

Affirmed. See Tirado v. State, 219 So. 3d 146, 148 (Fla. 4th DCA 2017) (the “trial court did not err in giving the standard jury instruction that ‘union means contact.’”), review denied, SC17-1263, 2017 WL 4404116 (Fla. Oct. 4, 2017).

GERBER, C.J., GROSS and KUNTZ, JJ., concur.

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Not final until disposition of timely filed motion for rehearing.


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