Legal Opinion

Farmer v. State

District Court of Appeal of Florida

Decided March 19, 2008No. 4D06-4340PublishedCited by 13 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

975 So.2d 1275 (2008)

David W. FARMER, Appellant,

v.

STATE of Florida, Appellee.

No. 4D06-4340.

District Court of Appeal of Florida, Fourth District.

March 19, 2008.

John F. Cotrone, Fort Lauderdale, for appellant.

Bill McCollum, Attorney General, Tallahassee, and Diane F. Medley, Assistant Attorney General, West Palm Beach, for appellee.

GROSS, J.

We affirm appellant's conviction for third degree murder, finding no fundamental error in the jury instruction on justifiable use of deadly force.

David Farmer was charged with the first degree murder of Steve Miller. Farmer and Miller got into a fight over a…

2Cases cited7 opinions

  1. Brown v. StateSupreme Court of Florida · 1960
  2. Martinez v. StateSupreme Court of Florida · 2008
  3. Smith v. StateSupreme Court of Florida · 1988
  4. Giles v. StateDistrict Court of Appeal of Florida · 2002
  5. Dunnaway v. StateDistrict Court of Appeal of Florida · 2004

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3Cited by13 opinions

  1. Permenter v. StateDistrict Court of Appeal of Florida · 2008
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  3. Clark v. StateDistrict Court of Appeal of Florida · 2009
  4. LUXAMA v. StateDistrict Court of Appeal of Florida · 2009
  5. McJIMSEY v. StateDistrict Court of Appeal of Florida · 2009

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