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15 So. 3d 899

Docket No. 4D08-1981.

Smith v. State

Antonio Antwan SMITH, Appellant, v. STATE of Florida, Appellee.

District Court of Appeal of Florida · decided 2009-08-05

Cited by 1 later decisions — most recently January 2016

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Relies on 371 So. 2d 1024 - McCreary v. State

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Decided 2009-08-05

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¶1Carey Haughwout, Public Defender, and Ellen Griffin, Assistant Public Defender, West Palm Beach, for appellant.

¶2Bill McCollum, Attorney General, Tallahassee, and Heidi L. Bettendorf, Assistant Attorney General, West Palm Beach, for appellee.

¶3PER CURIAM.

¶4Affirmed.

¶5DAMOORGIAN and GERBER, JJ., concur.

¶6GROSS, C.J., specially concurring.

¶7Appellant was convicted of violating section 782.071(1)(b), Florida Statutes (2008), a vehicular homicide aggravated by leaving the scene of the accident, so that the crime was a first degree felony. This was a close case on the issue of appellant's recklessness, a necessary element of the crime. On that issue, we are bound by McCreary v. State,371 So.2d 1024 (Fla.1979), a case involving slightly less egregious facts than those in this case. I also note that appellant might well have been charged under section 316.027(1)(b), Florida Statutes *900 (2008), also a first degree felony, which does not require proof of recklessness.

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