Legal Opinion
Velazquez v. State
District Court of Appeal of Florida
Decided September 10, 2004No. 2D03-5750PublishedCited by 20 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
884 So.2d 377 (2004)
Nelson VELAZQUEZ, Appellant,
v.
STATE of Florida, Appellee.
No. 2D03-5750.
District Court of Appeal of Florida, Second District.
September 10, 2004.
James Marion Moorman, Public Defender, and Charles D. Peters, Special Assistant Public Defender, Bartow, for Appellant.
Charles J. Crist, Jr., Attorney General, Tallahassee, and Richard M. Fishkin, Assistant Attorney General, Tampa, for Appellee.
NORTHCUTT, Judge.
Nelson Velazquez appeals his conviction and life sentence for attempted second-degree murder. We reverse based on fundamental error in the jury instruction on self-defense.
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