Case ID: so2d_666/html/0606-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "PER CURIAM.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

Matthew Jay BERKMAN, Appellant, v. The STATE of Florida, Appellee.
    No. 95-3628.
    District Court of Appeal of Florida, Third District.
    Feb. 7, 1996.
    Joel Kaplan, Miami, for appellant.
    Robert A. Butterworth, Attorney General, and Fredericka Sands, Assistant Attorney General, for appellee.
    Before BARKDULL, NESBITT, and GERSTEN, JJ.
   CONFESSION OF ERROR

PER CURIAM.

The State confesses error in the trial court’s partial denial of appellant’s motion to return property, which left three handguns seized from appellant during an arrest in the State’s custody. Because the seized firearms are neither the subject of any charges pending against appellant nor necessary evidence for the charges currently pending, Section 790.08(3) of the Florida Statutes mandates their return to appellant. Davila v. State, 655 So.2d 245 (Fla. 3d DCA 1995); Cameiro v. State, 464 So.2d 639 (Fla. 3d DCA 1985).

REVERSED.