Legal Opinion

Unis v. State

District Court of Appeal of Florida

Decided August 26, 1998No. 97-2385Published

1Opinion of the Court

717 So.2d 581 (1998)

Hilary UNIS, Appellant,

v.

STATE of Florida, Appellee.

No. 97-2385.

District Court of Appeal of Florida, Fourth District.

August 26, 1998.

H. Scott Hecker of Law Office of H. Scott Hecker, P.A., Fort Lauderdale, for appellant.

Robert A. Butterworth, Attorney General, Tallahassee, and Ettie Feistmann, Assistant Attorney General, West Palm Beach, for appellee.

2Per curiam

We affirm Appellant's conviction for aggravated battery. The trial court did not err in denying her request for a jury instruction on the "castle doctrine." The "castle doctrine" provides that where one is not the aggressor…

3Cases cited3 opinions

  1. Cannon v. StateDistrict Court of Appeal of Florida · 1985
  2. Frazier v. StateDistrict Court of Appeal of Florida · 1996
  3. Roger v. StateDistrict Court of Appeal of Florida · 1996

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