WILDS v. STATE (2025)

District Court of Appeal of Florida, Third District.

Travon WILDS, Appellant, v. STATE of Florida, Appellee.

No. 3D24-0205

Decided: November 12, 2025

Before SCALES, C.J., and MILLER and BOKOR, JJ.

Eugene F. Zenobi, Office of Criminal Conflict and Civil Regional Counsel, Third Region, and Kristen Kawass, Assistant Regional Counsel, for appellant. James Uthmeier, Attorney General, and Katryna Santa Cruz, Assistant Attorney General, for appellee.

Affirmed. See Talley v. State, 260 So. 3d 562, 572 (Fla. 3d DCA 2019) (explaining that fundamental error occurs in closing argument where the improper comment “affected the validity of [the defendant's] trial such that, but for the comment, the jury could not have reached the verdict it did”); Lammons v. State, 246 So. 3d 524, 527 (Fla. 3d DCA 2018) (concluding that the prosecutor's improper remark during closing argument did not contribute to the jury's verdict where the defendant was “charged with, and the state argued that he should be convicted of, second-degree murder, but the jury came back with the lesser-included offense of manslaughter”); Jones v. State, 666 So. 2d 995, 998 (Fla. 5th DCA 1996) (“Because the evidence of Jones’ guilt was compelling and overwhelming, we hold that the prosecutor's comments did not so impair the fairness of the trial as to constitute fundamental error.”).

PER CURIAM.

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