LAWYER STANLEY, JR.
v.
THE STATE OF FLORIDA
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A conviction for organized fraud is affirmed when the record demonstrates competent substantial evidence of a systematic, ongoing course of conduct with intent to defraud or obtain property by false pretenses.
[1] Organized fraud requires proof of a systematic, ongoing course of conduct coupled with either intent to defraud or intent to obtain property by false or fraudulent preten…
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Third District Court of Appeal State of Florida Opinion filed November 17, 2021. Not final until disposition of timely filed motion for rehearing. ________________ No. 3D19-1810 Lower Tribunal No. F15-23920 ________________ Lawyer Stanley, Jr., Appellant, vs. The State of Florida, Appellee. An Appeal from the Circuit Court for Miami-Dade County, Marisa Tinkler Mendez, Judge. Carlos J. Martinez, Public Defender, and Shannon Hemmendinger, Assistant Public Defender, for appellant. Ashley Moody, Attorney General, and Sonia Perez, Assistant Attorney General, for appellee. Before FERNANDEZ, C.J., and LINDSEY and BOKOR, JJ.
PER CURIAM.
2 Affirmed. See Pizzo v. State, 945 So. 2d 1203, 1207 (Fla. 2006) (setting forth elements of organized fraud, including: “(1) [e]ngaging in or furthering a systematic, ongoing course of conduct (2) with (a) intent to defraud, or (b) intent to obtain property by false or fraudulent pretenses, representations, or promises, or willful misrepresentations of a future act”); see also Beamon v. State, 23 So. 3d 209, 210-11 (Fla. 4th DCA 2009) (explaining ongoing course of conduct and noting that “[t]he Legislature has the power to criminalize the same acts in different ways, without any impropriety in making conduct involved in one case subject to prosecution either as several instances of grand theft or in sum as an organized scheme to defraud”); Sewall v. State, 783 So. 2d 1171, 1179 (Fla. 5th DCA 2001) (affirming conviction where the record adequately demonstrated that there was competent substantial evidence to support the jury’s verdict that Sewall engaged in ongoing conduct).
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