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Giuseppe Verdone, Jr. v. State, 5D15-2937 (2016)

Court: District Court of Appeal of Florida Number: 5D15-2937 Visitors: 14
Filed: Jun. 27, 2016
Latest Update: Mar. 03, 2020
Summary: IN THE DISTRICT COURT OF APPEAL OF THE STATE OF FLORIDA FIFTH DISTRICT NOT FINAL UNTIL TIME EXPIRES TO FILE MOTION FOR REHEARING AND DISPOSITION THEREOF IF FILED GIUSEPPE VERDONE, JR., Appellant, v. Case No. 5D15-2937 STATE OF FLORIDA, Appellee. _/ Opinion filed July 1, 2016 Appeal from the Circuit Court for Flagler County, J. David Walsh, Judge. James S. Purdy, Public Defender, and Edward J. Weiss, Assistant Public Defender, Daytona Beach, for Appellant. Pamela Jo Bondi, Attorney General, Talla
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         IN THE DISTRICT COURT OF APPEAL OF THE STATE OF FLORIDA
                              FIFTH DISTRICT

                                                NOT FINAL UNTIL TIME EXPIRES TO
                                                FILE MOTION FOR REHEARING AND
                                                DISPOSITION THEREOF IF FILED


GIUSEPPE VERDONE, JR.,

             Appellant,

 v.                                                   Case No. 5D15-2937

STATE OF FLORIDA,

             Appellee.

________________________________/

Opinion filed July 1, 2016

Appeal from the Circuit Court
for Flagler County,
J. David Walsh, Judge.

James S. Purdy, Public Defender, and
Edward J. Weiss, Assistant Public
Defender,   Daytona     Beach,    for
Appellant.

Pamela Jo Bondi, Attorney General,
Tallahassee, and Lori N.     Hagan,
Assistant Attorney General, Daytona
Beach, for Appellee.


PER CURIAM.

      Giuseppe Verdone, Jr. appeals his convictions for robbery with a weapon,

kidnapping with a weapon, burglary with an assault or battery, and battery. As the State

properly concedes, double jeopardy principles preclude Verdone's conviction for simple

battery. See, e.g., Young v. State, 
43 So. 3d 876
, 877 (Fla. 5th DCA 2010) ("Convictions
for both burglary with a battery and for the lesser included offense of battery violate double

jeopardy." (citations omitted)).   As in Young, the verdict form in this case gave no

indication as to whether the jury found Verdone to have committed a "burglary with an

assault" or a "burglary with a battery," requiring that we "read the verdict in a manner that

would give the benefit of the doubt to [the defendant]." 
Id. For this
reason, we reverse

the simple battery conviction and time-served sentence. Verdone also argues that the

trial court erred by allowing collateral crime evidence to be used under the inextricably

intertwined doctrine. Finding no error in the admission of the collateral crime evidence,

we affirm all other convictions and sentences.

       AFFIRMED IN PART; REVERSED IN PART.


LAWSON, C.J., LAMBERT and EDWARDS, JJ., concur.




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