Douglas S. Livingston v. State

The defendant appeals from his convictions on two counts of extortion and eleven counts of third degree grand theft relating to work to be performed by his construction company on projects for several customers. The defendant raises several arguments, but we write to address only his argument that the trial court erred in denying his motion for judgment of acquittal on the grand theft counts where work was performed on each of the projects. On that argument and all other arguments raised, we affirm.

Section 812.014(1 )(a), Florida Statutes (2004), defines theft, in pertinent part as follows:

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