JEAN MANY, APPELLANT,
v.
STATE OF FLORIDA, APPELLEE
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The court held that the defendant's claim of error regarding the jury instruction on attempted manslaughter was not preserved and would have been harmless error even if preserved.
The defendant was convicted of attempted first-degree murder and robbery with a firearm. He argued the trial court erred by not instructing the jury o…
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BAILEY, JENNIFER D., Associate Judge.
Jean Junior Many appeals his conviction for attempted first degree murder and robbery with a firearm after trial by a jury which found him guilty as charged. He was sentenced to concurrent life sentences.
Many alleges that the trial court erred by failing to instruct the jury on attempted manslaughter as a lesser-included offense to attempted first degree murder. The record reveals that the question of an attempted manslaughter instruction was raised by defense counsel during a preliminary, informal discussion of jury instructions. Subsequently, a formal jury charge conference occurred. Defense counsel did not request an attempted manslaughter instruction at the charge conference. The trial court instructed the jury on the lesser included offenses of attempted second degree with a firearm and aggravated battery with a firearm. No instruction on attempted manslaughter was requested and none was given. When asked by the trial court whether there were any objections to the instructions as read, defense counsel answered “No.” The alleged error was not preserved. See Fla. R.Crim. P. 3.390(d); Manka v. State, 720 So. 2d 1109 (Fla. 4th DCA 1998).
Even had the alleged error been preserved, failure to give the attempted manslaughter' instruction would have been harmless error. See State v. Abreau, 363 So. 2d 1063 (Fla.1978); Louttit v. State, 467 So. 2d 756 (Fla. 3d DCA 1985).
AFFIRMED.
STEVENSON and GROSS, JJ., concur.
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Wilson v. State, 786 So. 2d 632 (Fla. 4th DCA 2001)…peal only if it is properly preserved or amounts to fundamental error. See § 924.051(3), Fla. Stat. (2000). It is well-settled that to preserve a jury instruction error, one must object before the jury retires to consider its verdict. Many v. State, 756 So. 2d 169 (Fla. 4th DCA 2000)(refusing to review alleged jury instruction error where defendant raised question during preliminary, informal discussion but failed to object during formal charge conference or before jury retired to deliberate); Rayner v. State…
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- Grant v. State, 363 So. 2d 1063 (Fla. 1978)
- Brooks v. State, 720 So. 2d 1109 (Fla. 4th DCA 1998)
- Louttit v. State, 467 So. 2d 756 (Fla. 3d DCA 1985)