ALDERMAN v. STATE (2024)

District Court of Appeal of Florida, Fourth District.

Jerald ALDERMAN, Appellant, v. STATE of Florida, Appellee.

No. 4D2022-3088

Decided: May 22, 2024

Stuart N. Kaplan and Thomas J. Ali of The Law Offices of Stuart N. Kaplan, Palm Beach Gardens, and Steven H. Malone of Steven H. Malone, P.A., West Palm Beach, for appellant. Ashley Moody, Attorney General, Tallahassee, and Heidi L. Bettendorf, Senior Assistant Attorney General, West Palm Beach, for appellee.

We affirm the convictions and sentences on all issues raised by the appellant. As to the appellant's claim regarding the denial of the motion to disqualify the trial judge, any error was harmless. See Davis v. State, 347 So. 3d 315, 327 n.6 (Fla. 2022) (applying the harmless error standard where error in the denial of a motion for disqualification did not have “a reasonable probability of contributing to [the defendant's] conviction”).

Affirmed.

Per Curiam.

Warner, Conner and Artau, JJ., concur.

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