Florida District Courts of Appeal, 1991

Byrd v. State

Byrd v. State
Florida District Courts of Appeal · Decided February 6, 1991 · Baskin, Goderich, Nesbitt
582 So. 2d 640; 1991 Fla. App. LEXIS 977; 1991 WL 15595 (Southern Reporter, Second Series)

Byrd v. State

Opinion of the Court

PER CURIAM.

Upon examination of the record and the state’s confession of error, the defendant’s conviction must be reversed with directions to award a new trial because when the trial court re-instructed the jury, the entire written instructions in the case were not, over objection of defense counsel, delivered to the jury as required by Florida Rule of Criminal Procedure 3.400(c). Consequently, the jury may have placed undue emphasis upon the re-instruction given. Chappell v. State, 423 So.2d 984 (Fla. 3d DCA 1982); Morgan v. State, 377 So.2d 212, 213 (Fla. 3d DCA 1979), cert. denied, 389 So.2d 1115 (Fla. 1980).

Reversed and remanded for a new trial.

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