Bradley v. State

ALTENBERND, Judge.

Rickie Joe Bradley appeals his judgment and sentence for battery on a person over the age of sixty-five. We affirm. We write to distinguish this case from Talley v. State, 106 So.3d 1015 (Fla. 2d DCA 2013), because, unlike in Talley, the extra comma in the self-defense jury instruction is not a fundamental error.

The victim in this case was a black man over the age of sixty-five who, along with his daughter, accompanied a woman, Ms. Anderson, to the home of Mr. Bradley. Ms. Anderson’s daughter was a friend of Mr. Bradley’s daughter and she was visiting the Bradley home. She…