Legal Opinion

L.A.R. v. State

District Court of Appeal of Florida

Decided January 16, 2015No. 2D14-429Published

1Opinion of the Court

BLACK, Judge.

L.A.R. appeals the withhold of adjudication and disposition order relating to charges of burglary of an unoccupied conveyance and petit theft. L.A.R. contends that the, trial court erred in denying his motion for dismissal because the fingerprint evidence was insufficiént to establish that he committed the crimes. We agree. Since the only evidence implicating L.A.R. were his fingerprints found on a bag containing a newspaper that was left in the vehicle by someone other than the victim and the State failed to show that the fingerprints could only have been made at the time of the…

2Cases cited3 opinions

  1. Shores v. StateDistrict Court of Appeal of Florida · 2000
  2. Hill v. StateDistrict Court of Appeal of Florida · 2008
  3. Seneca v. StateDistrict Court of Appeal of Florida · 2000

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