Montero v. State

After punching a nightclub manager in the head causing him to suffer permanent brain damage, Hugo Montero, convicted of aggravated battery, contends the trial court should have acquitted him of that charge because he didn’t intend to hurt the manager so badly. Having told the manager he was going to kill him, and almost doing so, we conclude there was competent substantial evidence supporting the-jury’s verdict that Montero intended., to cause great bodily harm.

On the evening of June 29, 2015 (and into the early morning hours of June 30), Montero was at the Fox Hole bar in South Beach. In an…