Romanyuk v. State

LaROSE, Judge.

Irina Romanyuk appeals her conviction and thirty-month prison sentence for possession of a controlled substance and possession of paraphernalia. See §§ 893.13(6)(a), .147, Fla. Stat. (2011). The trial court erroneously denied her request for a prescription defense jury instruction. Consequently, we reverse.

Ms. Romanyuk planned to run some errands with her husband and her friend Sue Motes. Ms. Motes drove them in her car. They stopped first at the library. Ms. Motes then drove to Wendy’s, where a man came to her car window; she gave him five oxycodone pills in exchange for one…