District Court of Appeal of Florida

Conviction for kidnapping is affirmed, but conviction for aggravated battery is reversed where double jeopardy prohibited the conviction since the kidnapping conviction had already been enhanced by the jury's special finding that an aggravated battery had occurred during the kidnapping.

Appellate Information

• Decided 04/26/2006
• Published 04/26/2006

Judges

• CORTIÑAS, Judge., Before GREEN and CORTIÑAS, JJ., and SCHWARTZ, Senior Judge.

Court

• District Court of Appeal of Florida

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Bennet H. Brummer, Public Defender, and Robert Kalter, Assistant Public Defender, for appellant.


• For Appellees:
  
• Charles J. Crist, Jr., Attorney General, and Meredith L. Balo, Assistant Attorney General, for appellee.