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793 So. 2d 96

Docket No. 2D00-2760.

Nunez v. State

Keniel NUNEZ, Appellant, v. STATE of Florida, Appellee.

District Court of Appeal of Florida

Decided August 15, 2001.

District Court of Appeal of Florida · decided 2001-08-15

Cited by 1 later decisions — most recently May 2008

1 state decisions

Key passage — most relied on by later courts

“Since the jury did not convict appellant of second-degree murder but rather the lesser included offense of aggravated battery with a deadly weapon, appellant should not have been assessed 120 victim injury points for the victim's death.”

quoted by 1 later decision, including 981 So. 2d 596 - Lane v. State

Relies on Key v. State · Truitt v. State

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Decided 2001-08-15

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¶1*97 James Marion Moorman, Public Defender, and Jean M. Henne, Assistant Public Defender, Bartow, for Appellant.

¶2Robert A. Butterworth, Attorney General, Tallahassee, and Richard M. Fishkin, Assistant Attorney General, Tampa, for Appellee.

¶3STRINGER, Judge.

¶4Appellant, Keniel Nunez, challenges his conviction and sentence for attempted robbery with a firearm. We find no merit in his contention that the trial court erred in denying his motion for judgment of acquittal and in failing to give his requested jury instruction as to independent acts. Thus, we affirm his conviction without further comment. We, however, remand this case for resentencing because the trial court improperly added 120 victim injury points to appellant's scoresheet due to the victim's death.

¶5In addition to being charged with attempted robbery with a firearm, appellant was charged with second-degree murder for a death which occurred during the robbery. The jury acquitted appellant of the second-degree murder charge. Since the jury acquitted appellant of second-degree murder, the trial court should not have assessed 120 victim injury points for the victim's death. See Truitt v. State,787 So.2d 53 (Fla. 2d DCA 2001) (holding that where the defendant was charged with second-degree murder but only convicted of aggravated battery, the trial court erred in imposing 120 victim injury points); Key v. State,779 So.2d 525 (Fla. 2d DCA 2000). Accordingly, we remand this case for resentencing without assessing 120 victim injury points for the victim's death. On remand, the trial court may impose other appropriate victim injury points.

¶6Affirmed in part, reversed in part, and remanded for resentencing.

¶7THREADGILL, A.C.J., and GREEN, J., Concur.

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