CHARLES FLAHERTY
v.
STATE OF FLORIDA
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Charles Flaherty appeals his convictions and sentences for attempted second-degree murder, raising issues regarding evidentiary rulings, denial of Stand Your Ground immunity and speedy trial motions, failure to conduct a Faretta hearing, and alleged vindictive and excessive sentencing. The appellate court affirmed the convictions and sentences but without prejudice to Flaherty raising an improper reclassification claim in post-conviction proceedings.
The court affirmed Flaherty's convictions on all grounds raised. The court affirmed the sentences on direct appeal but without prejudice to Flaherty raising an improper reclassification claim in an appropriate post-conviction motion.
[1] A claim that a sentence was imposed in violation of statutory maximum limitations based on improper reclassification of the offense may be raised in post-conviction proce…
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DISTRICT COURT OF APPEAL OF THE STATE OF FLORIDA
FOURTH DISTRICT
CHARLES FLAHERTY, Appellant,
V.
STATE OF FLORIDA, Appellee.
No. 4D2024-2672
[April 15, 2026]
Appeal from the Circuit Court for the Seventeenth Judicial Circuit, Broward County; John D. Fry, Judge; L.T. Case No. 062023CF001095A88810.
Harry Dohn Williams, Jr., Special Public Defender, Fort Lauderdale, for appellant.
James Uthmeier, Attorney General, Tallahassee, and Zi Jin Peter Chan, Assistant Attorney General, West Palm Beach, for appellee.
PER CURIAM.
Charles Flaherty appeals his convictions and sentences. With respect to his convictions, he raises issues involving evidentiary rulings, the trial court's denials of his pre-trial motions for dismissal based on Stand Your Ground immunity and speedy trial rules, and the court's purported failure to conduct a Faretta¹ hearing. We affirm on those grounds. Flaherty also appeals the sentences imposed on two counts of attempted second-degree murder, arguing that they were vindictive and that the sentences exceeded the statutory maximum based on improper reclassification. We affirm the sentences on direct appeal but without prejudice to Flaherty raising an improper reclassification claim in an appropriate post-conviction motion.
Affirmed without prejudice.
GROSS, CIKLIN and LOTT, JJ., concur. * * *
Not final until disposition of timely-filed motion for rehearing.
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