James Donta Pope v. State of Florida

DISTRICT COURT OF APPEAL OF THE STATE OF FLORIDA FOURTH DISTRICT JAMES DONTA POPE, Appellant, v. STATE OF FLORIDA, Appellee. No. 4D2024-2822 [December 3, 2025] Appeal from the County Court for the Seventeenth Judicial Circuit, Broward County; Ginger Lerner-Wren, Judge; L.T. Case No. 22008590MM10A. Gordon Weekes, Public Defender, and Lisa S. Lawlor, Chief Assistant Public Defender, Fort Lauderdale, for appellant. James Uthmeier, Attorney General, Tallahassee, and Marcus Russell Kelly II, Assistant Attorney General, West Palm Beach, for appellee. MAY, J. It’s a matter of proof or lack thereof…