Scott v. State

We affirm the trial court’s denial of appellant’s motion for postconviction relief in which he claimed that his counsel was ineffective for failing to object to a jury charge on false imprisonment. The trial court refused to instruct the jury in accordance with the standard jury instruction, which provided that the jury must find that the defendant acted for any other purpose other than to “commit or facilitate commission of any felony” in order to convict a defendant for false imprisonment. Because the statutory definition of false imprisonment was amended in 1993 to eliminate such a…