Uchechi Madubuike Ihedioha, Appellant, v. State of Florida, Appellee. (2025)

District Court of Appeal of Florida, Fifth District.

Uchechi Madubuike Ihedioha, Appellant, v. State of Florida, Appellee.

Case No. 5D2024-0945

Decided: December 05, 2025

Matthew J. Metz, Public Defender, and Jacqueline Rae Brandt, Assistant Public Defender, Daytona Beach, for Appellant. James Uthmeier, Attorney General, and Robert Charles Lee, Assistant Attorney General, Tallahassee, for Appellee.

Appellant claims the trial court erred in making comments and taking actions that conveyed to the jury that it disfavored the Appellant, a claim that was not raised below and is thereby subject to fundamental error analysis on appeal. Review of the record fails to disclose any error, let alone fundamental error, in the trial court's actions, which reflected patience and restraint. As the State argues, trial counsel ^* for Appellant “behaved so badly that the trial judge had to intervene to maintain an orderly trial.” We agree.

Affirmed.

FOOTNOTES

FOOTNOTE. Appellate counsel for Appellant was not trial counsel; Appellant had a private attorney representing him at trial.

Per Curiam.

Makar, Lambert, and Soud, JJ., concur.

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