Legal Opinion
Giles v. State
District Court of Appeal of Florida
Decided December 18, 2002No. 4D01-3850PublishedCited by 78 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
831 So.2d 1263 (2002)
Lamonda D. GILES, Appellant,
v.
STATE of Florida, Appellee.
No. 4D01-3850.
District Court of Appeal of Florida, Fourth District.
December 18, 2002.
Carey Haughwout, Public Defender, and Tatjana Ostapoff, Assistant Public Defender, West Palm Beach, for appellant.
Richard E. Doran, Attorney General, Tallahassee, and Sue-Ellen Kenny, Assistant Attorney General, West Palm Beach, for appellee.
STONE, J.
We reverse Giles' aggravated battery conviction, as the wording of a self-defense jury instruction was misleading.
Giles and the victim, Leon White, were engaged in a poker game when…
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