District Court of Appeal of Florida

Defendant's conviction for battery on a law enforcement officer is affirmed, without prejudice to his asserting his ineffective assistance claims in a motion for post-conviction relief, where the reasons for his counsel's alleged failure to investigate possible gaps in video evidence were not clear, and he did not preserve for appellate review the issue of ineffective assistance of counsel regarding an internal affairs officer's opinion testimony and his counsel's failure to request a jury instruction on self-defense.

Appellate Information

• Decided 09/20/2006
• Published 09/20/2006

Judges

• POLEN, J.

Court

• District Court of Appeal of Florida

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Carey Haughwout, Public Defender, and Gary Caldwell, Assistant Public Defender, West Palm Beach, for appellant.


• For Appellees:
  
• Charles J. Crist, Jr., Attorney General, Tallahassee, and Laura Fisher Zibura, Assistant Attorney General, West Palm Beach, for appellee.