Brown v. State

CRENSHAW, Judge.

Corey L. Brown, Jr., appeals his judgment and sentence for second-degree murder with a firearm, an offense he committed as a juvenile. After a jury found him guilty, the trial court sentenced Brown to forty years’ prison with a twenty-five-year mandatory minimum term based on the jury’s finding that he caused the victim’s death by discharging a firearm during the offense. See § 775.087(2)(a)(3), Fla. Stat. (2013). We find merit in only one of the issues raised in this appeal and affirm Brown’s conviction without further comment. We also conclude that the trial court conducted…