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Rodriguez v. State

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Arturo Rodriguez, Appellant, v. The State of Florida, Appellee. Case No. 3D06-1693. District Court of Appeal of Florida, Third District. Opinion filed June 4, 2008. An Appeal from the Circuit Court for Miami-Dade County, Leonard E. Glick, Judge. Lower Tribunal No. 00-17015. Bennett H. Brummer, Public Defender, and Leslie Anne Scalley, Special Assistant Public Defender, for appellant. Bill McCollum, Attorney General, and Paulette R. Taylor, Assistant Attorney General, for appellee. Before GERSTEN, C.J., and SHEPHERD and LAGOA, JJ. LAGOA, Judge. Defendant, Arturo Rodriguez (”Rodriguez”), appeals his convictions for Page 2 second degree murder and aggravated assault with a deadly weapon. Because we find that the trial court committed reversible error in failing to conduct a Faretta1 inquiry after Rodriguez made an unequivocal demand to represent himself, we reverse his conviction on this ground and remand for a new trial...continue to full post

Full post as published by Florida Criminal Law Opinions on June 04, 2008 (boomark / email).