Legal Opinion
Mendez v. State
District Court of Appeal of Florida
Decided April 21, 1982No. 81-1226PublishedCited by 22 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
412 So.2d 965 (1982)
Rafiel MENDEZ, Appellant,
v.
STATE of Florida, Appellee.
No. 81-1226.
District Court of Appeal of Florida, Second District.
April 21, 1982.
Jerry Hill, Public Defender, Bartow, and Samuel R. Mandelbaum, Asst. Public Defender, Tampa, for appellant.
Jim Smith, Atty. Gen., Tallahassee, and Michael J. Kotler, Asst. Atty. Gen., Tampa, for appellee.
BOARDMAN, Judge.
Rafiel Mendez appeals his conviction and sentence for attempted second-degree murder of a police officer. We reverse.
The officer, Robert E. Pennington, a key witness, testified that he and another officer responded to a call…
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