REGAL v. STATE (2025)

District Court of Appeal of Florida, Sixth District.

Randen Ray REGAL, Appellant, v. STATE of Florida, Appellee.

Case No. 6D2024-0905

Decided: September 26, 2025

Blair Allen, Public Defender, and Tosha Cohen, Assistant Public Defender, Bartow, for Appellant. James Uthmeier, Attorney General, Tallahassee, and Cerese Crawford Taylor, Assistant Attorney General, Tampa, for Appellee.

AFFIRMED. See Branch v. State, 685 So. 2d 1250, 1252 (Fla. 1996) (stating that inquiry contemplated by Nelson v. State, 274 So. 2d 256 (Fla. 4th DCA 1973) is inapplicable to privately retained counsel).

PER CURIAM.

TRAVER, C.J., and NARDELLA and WOZNIAK, JJ., concur.

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