Lumsdon v. State

I agree with the majority’s decision to affirm Willie Lumsdon’s conviction and sentence for throwing a deadly missile and to reverse his conviction and sentence for second degree murder, but do so for the following reasons.

This case arises from a shooting death that occurred near or on a crowded off-ramp of 1-95, where two groups of young men travelling in separate vehicles engaged in verbal repartee and tossed items between cars following which Lumsdon admittedly fired off a shot killing one of the occupants in the other car. See Lumsdon v. State, 29 So.3d 390, 392 (Fla. 3d DCA 2010),…