Filed: Oct. 30, 2015
Latest Update: Mar. 02, 2020
Summary: IN THE DISTRICT COURT OF APPEAL OF FLORIDA SECOND DISTRICT JERRY PHARISIEN, ) ) Appellant, ) ) v. ) Case No. 2D10-959 ) STATE OF FLORIDA, ) ) Appellee. ) _ ) Opinion filed October 30, 2015. Appeal from the Circuit Court for Collier County; Franklin G. Baker, Judge. Howard L. Dimmig, II, Public Defender, and Karen M. Kinney, Assistant Public Defender, Bartow, for Appellant. Pamela Jo Bondi, Attorney General, Tallahassee, and Tonja Rene Vickers, Assistant Attorney General, Tampa, for Appellee. ON
Summary: IN THE DISTRICT COURT OF APPEAL OF FLORIDA SECOND DISTRICT JERRY PHARISIEN, ) ) Appellant, ) ) v. ) Case No. 2D10-959 ) STATE OF FLORIDA, ) ) Appellee. ) _ ) Opinion filed October 30, 2015. Appeal from the Circuit Court for Collier County; Franklin G. Baker, Judge. Howard L. Dimmig, II, Public Defender, and Karen M. Kinney, Assistant Public Defender, Bartow, for Appellant. Pamela Jo Bondi, Attorney General, Tallahassee, and Tonja Rene Vickers, Assistant Attorney General, Tampa, for Appellee. ON R..
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IN THE DISTRICT COURT OF APPEAL
OF FLORIDA
SECOND DISTRICT
JERRY PHARISIEN, )
)
Appellant, )
)
v. ) Case No. 2D10-959
)
STATE OF FLORIDA, )
)
Appellee. )
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Opinion filed October 30, 2015.
Appeal from the Circuit Court for Collier
County; Franklin G. Baker, Judge.
Howard L. Dimmig, II, Public Defender,
and Karen M. Kinney, Assistant Public
Defender, Bartow, for Appellant.
Pamela Jo Bondi, Attorney General,
Tallahassee, and Tonja Rene Vickers,
Assistant Attorney General, Tampa, for
Appellee.
ON REMAND FROM THE SUPREME COURT OF FLORIDA
PER CURIAM.
Upon remand from the Florida Supreme Court, we reconsider Jerry
Pharisien's convictions for second-degree murder with a firearm and attempted second-
degree murder with a firearm in light of the subsequent decisions in Griffin v. State,
160
So. 3d 63 (Fla. 2015), and Daniels v. State,
121 So. 3d 409 (Fla. 2013). Because the
2008 standard jury instruction on manslaughter by act suffers from the same infirmity
found erroneous in State v. Montgomery,
39 So. 3d 252 (Fla. 2010), the jury instruction
given at Pharisien's trial was erroneous. See
Daniels, 121 So. 3d at 419. And because
Pharisien was convicted of second-degree murder, which is only one step removed
from the necessarily lesser-included offense of manslaughter, this error was
fundamental.
Id. at 415, 419. The fact that Pharisien's defense was that he was simply
not present at the scene of the shootings does not change this result. See
Griffin, 160
So. 3d at 67 (determining that "a sole defense of misidentification does not concede or
fail to place in dispute intent or any other element of the crime charged except identity
when the offense charged is an unlawful homicide"). Accordingly, we reverse and
remand to the circuit court for a new trial.
Reversed and remanded for a new trial.
NORTHCUTT,1 KHOUZAM, and CRENSHAW, JJ., Concur.
1
Judge Northcutt has been substituted for Judge Davis, who was on the
original Pharisien panel.
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