District Court of Appeal of Florida

A conviction for attempted second-degree murder with a firearm is reversed where the trial court erred in admitting testimony of a witness that hollow-point bullets are for killing, and it was not possible to say with any certainty that the error was harmless.

Appellate Information

• Decided 07/19/2006
• Published 07/19/2006

Judges

• FARMER, J.

Court

• District Court of Appeal of Florida

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• James S. Elkins of James S. Elkins, P.A., West Palm Beach, for appellant.


• For Appellees:
  
• Charles J. Crist, Jr., Attorney General, Tallahassee, and Monique E. L'Italien, Assistant Attorney General, West Palm Beach, for appellee.