Young v. State

Patrick Young was tried and convicted of a number of serious crimes including first-degree murder and armed robbery, stemming from a deadly early morning encounter at a residence in Broward County in 2007. Young raises multiple issues on appeal, none of which we find warrant reversal, but we write to discuss two of them.

Young and co-defendant Markinsey Me-tayer1 were tried together for the same crimes. In Metayer’s appeal, we laid out most of the facts relevant to the instant case:

The tragic shooting incident occurred in a Broward County home in the early morning hours of July 22, 2007.…