Legal Opinion
Gangapersad Ramroop v. State of Florida
Supreme Court of Florida
Decided March 30, 2017No. SC15-1816PublishedCited by 9 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtPariente, J.
The conflict issue in this case is whether section 782.065, Florida Statutes (2013), 1 creates a substantive criminal offense of attempted murder of a law enforcement officer that includes as an essential element that the defendant knew that the victim was a law enforcement officer. In Ramroop v. State, 174 So.3d 584 (Fla. 5th DCA 2015), the Fifth District Court of Appeal held that section 782.065, titled “Murder; law enforcement officer, correctional officer, correctional probation officer,” requires knowledge but is a reclassification statute that “in and of itself, is not a substantive…
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