Legal Opinion

Schlangen v. State

District Court of Appeal of Florida

Decided June 23, 1999No. 98-00317PublishedCited by 2 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

PATTERSON, Judge.-

Cindy Schlangen appeals from her judgment and sentence for aggravated assault on an officer, battery on an officer, obstructing an officer with violence, and grand theft of a motor vehicle. We vacate her conviction and sentence for grand theft and affirm the remaining convictions.

At trial, the State proved that Mrs. Schlangen was a passenger in a truck which she probably knew was stolen. As the State concedes, this evidence was insufficient to support the grand theft conviction. “A person who is a passenger in a vehicle after the vehicle has been stolen, even if he knows the…

2Cases cited1 opinion

  1. Clayton v. StateDistrict Court of Appeal of Florida · 1994

3Cited by2 opinions

  1. Canady v. StateDistrict Court of Appeal of Florida · 2002
  2. J. A. H. v. STATE OF FLORIDADistrict Court of Appeal of Florida · 2019

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