LATRAVIS BROWN
v.
STATE OF FLORIDA

Fla. 1st DCA | 2019-07-02
No. 18-1529
Hoffman
274 So. 3d 1058 Florida District Court of Appeal, First District (2019)

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Holding

When appellate counsel omits a preserved issue from the opening brief due to inadvertent error rather than strategic choice, harmless error analysis applies and affirmance may be appropriate if the error was harmless beyond a reasonable doubt.


Headnotes

[1] An appellate counsel's inadvertent omission of a preserved trial issue from an opening brief is subject to harmless error review rather than automatic reversal.

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Facts & Procedural History

Latravis Brown was convicted and sentenced. On appeal, appellate counsel's opening brief inadvertently failed to address a preserved issue that had be…

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Opinion of the Court

RAY, C.J., and JAY, J., and SHARRIT, MICHAEL S., Associate Judge, concur. _____________________________ Not final until disposition of any timely and authorized motion under Fla. R. App. P. 9.330 or 9.331.

_____________________________ Candice Kaye Brower, Criminal Conflict & Civil Regional Counsel, Region One, and Michael Jerome Titus, Assistant Regional Conflict Counsel, Tallahassee, for Appellant. Ashley Moody, Attorney General, and Steven Woods, Assistant Attorney General, Tallahassee, for Appellee.


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