ARIEL PEREZ, APPELLANT,
v.
THE STATE OF FLORIDA, APPELLEE

Fla. 3d DCA | 1991-04-30
No. 90-2142
Before BASKIN, COPE and GODERICH, JJ.
578 So. 2d 510 Florida District Court of Appeal, Third District (1991) Positive Treatment
Cited by 2 cases

Opinion of the Court
PER CURIAM.

PER CURIAM.

As the State properly concedes, the trial court fundamentally erred in failing to make any reference to excusable homicide and justifiable homicide when instructing the jury as to attempted manslaughter. See State v. Smith, 573 So. 2d 306 (Fla.1990); Rojas v. State, 552 So. 2d 914 (Fla.1989). Accordingly, the defendant’s conviction and sentence for attempted second degree murder with a firearm is reversed and remanded for a new trial, and his sentences as to his remaining convictions are reversed and remanded for resentencing.

Reversed and remanded.


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