Supreme Court of Florida

Insufficiency of the evidence to prove one element of a crime does not constitute fundamental error, therefore this claim must first be raised in the trial court to be preserved for appellate review.

Appellate Information

• Decided 07/17/2003
• Published 07/17/2003

Judges

• CANTERO, J.

Court

• Supreme Court of Florida

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Carey Haughwout, Public Defender, and Marcy K. Allen, Assistant Public Defender, Fifteenth Judicial Circuit, West Palm Beach, Florida, for Petitioner.


• For Appellees:
  
• Charles J. Crist, Jr., Attorney General, Celia Terenzio, Bureau Chief, and Maria J. Patullo, Assistant Attorney General, West Palm Beach, Florida, for Respondent.