Legal Opinion

Moulton v. State

District Court of Appeal of Florida

Decided November 15, 2017No. Case 2D16-5416PublishedCited by 11 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

ORDER RELINQUISHING JURISDICTION

VILLANTI, Judge.

Deborah Jean Moulton appeals her conviction and sentence for the reduced charge of principal to manslaughter with a firearm, contending that her due process rights were violated because the trial court did not make an independent determination that she had been restored to competency before it accepted her plea to the reduced charge. Because it is not clear that the trial court made an independent finding of competency, we relinquish jurisdiction for sixty days, as we recently did in Cramer v. State, 213 So.3d 1028 (Fla. 2d DCA 2017), for the…

2Cases cited13 opinions

  1. Bernard J. Dougherty v. State of FloridaSupreme Court of Florida · 2014
  2. Fowler v. StateSupreme Court of Florida · 1971
  3. Ronald Pak Zern v. State of FloridaDistrict Court of Appeal of Florida · 2016
  4. Molina v. StateDistrict Court of Appeal of Florida · 2006
  5. Merriell v. StateDistrict Court of Appeal of Florida · 2015

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3Cited by11 opinions

  1. Machin v. StateDistrict Court of Appeal of Florida · 2019
  2. Carrion v. StateDistrict Court of Appeal of Florida · 2018
  3. Louis Burney, Jr. v. StateDistrict Court of Appeal of Florida · 2018
  4. VERONICA ELDER v. STATE OF FLORIDADistrict Court of Appeal of Florida · 2019
  5. Auerbach v. StateDistrict Court of Appeal of Florida · 2019

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