Jovita C. Ibeagwa v. State of Florida

The appellant, Jovita Ibeagwa, appeals her conviction for two counts of aggravated manslaughter of a child following the drowning deaths of her two children, aged six and three. On appeal she raises three arguments, two of which merit discussion. First, she argues that the trial court erred in denying her motion for judgment of acquittal where the State failed to present a prima facie case that her action of leaving the children unsupervised constituted culpable negligence to support the charges of aggravated manslaughter. She also argues that improper comments made by the prosecution during…