Supreme Court of Florida

In prosecutions for driving or boating under the influence of alcohol, improper instruction on the statutory presumption of impairment is not fundamental error if the State charges unlawful blood- or breath-alcohol level and the jury is correctly instructed thereon, or if the jury is correctly instructed on actual impairment.

Appellate Information

• Decided 02/26/2004
• Published 02/26/2004

Judges

• PARIENTE, J.

Court

• Supreme Court of Florida

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Ronald R. Cardenas, Jr., pro se, DeFuniak Springs, FL, for Petitioner., Charles J. Crist, Jr., Attorney General, and Rebecca Roark Wall, Assistant Attorney General, Daytona Beach, FL, for Petitioner.


• For Appellees:
  
• Charles J. Crist, Jr., Attorney General, James W. Rogers, Tallahassee Bureau Chief, Criminal Appeals, and Robert L. Martin, Assistant Attorney General, Tallahassee, FL, for Respondent., James B. Gibson, Public Defender, and Rosemarie Farrell, Assistant Public Defender, Seventh Judicial Circuit, Daytona Beach, FL, for Respondent.