Legal Opinion
Young v. State
District Court of Appeal of Florida
Decided June 19, 1998No. 96-03499PublishedCited by 2 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
711 So.2d 1379 (1998)
John YOUNG, Jr., Appellant,
v.
STATE of Florida, Appellee.
No. 96-03499.
District Court of Appeal of Florida, Second District.
June 19, 1998.
James Marion Moorman, Public Defender, and John C. Fisher, Assistant Public Defender, Bartow, for Appellant.
Robert A. Butterworth, Attorney General, Tallahassee, and Tonja R. Vickers, Assistant Attorney General, Tampa, for Appellee.
BLUE, Judge.
In this appeal of his second-degree murder conviction, John Young, Jr., contends the trial court erred when it modified the Allen[1] charge. We agree the modified instruction was improper. Because…
2Cases cited5 opinions
- Allen v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1896
- Gahley v. StateDistrict Court of Appeal of Florida · 1990
- McKinney v. StateDistrict Court of Appeal of Florida · 1994
- Warren v. StateDistrict Court of Appeal of Florida · 1986
- McElrath v. StateDistrict Court of Appeal of Florida · 1987
3Cited by2 opinions
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- Monforto v. StateDistrict Court of Appeal of Florida · 2009