Florida District Courts of Appeal, 2009

Aquino v. State

Aquino v. State
Florida District Courts of Appeal · Decided February 13, 2009 · Cohen, Griffin, Orfinger
4 So. 3d 40; 2009 Fla. App. LEXIS 2913; 2009 WL 347752 (Southern Reporter, Third Series)

Aquino v. State

Opinion of the Court

PER CURIAM.

Appellant, Mark A. Aquino [“Aquino”], was charged and tried on charges of first-degree murder and accessory after the fact to first-degree murder. During trial, he contended that the evidence was inadequate to prove accessory after the fact to first-degree murder and requested an instruction on accessory after the fact to *41aggravated battery as a lesser included offense. The trial court denied his motion for judgment of acquittal, but gave the requested instruction, as well as instructions on additional lesser included offenses. The jury acquitted Aquino on the first-degree murder charge and found him guilty of accessory after the fact to first-degree murder. We agree that the evidence admitted at trial was insufficient to support the aeeessory-to-murder conviction, but the evidence is ample to support a conviction of accessory after the fact to aggravated battery. We order the judgment be amended accordingly and that Aquino be resentenced in accordance with the amended judgment of conviction of accessory after the fact to aggravated battery.

REVERSED and REMANDED.

GRIFFIN, ORFINGER and COHEN, JJ., concur.

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