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Timestamp: 2019-04-20 04:45:18+00:00

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battered any person by actual and intentional touching or striking of another person against that person’s will or the intentional causing of bodily harm to another person.
Burglary with assault or battery is classified as a Level 8 offense for purposes of the criminal punishment code. This felony of the first degree is punishable by imprisonment for a term of years not exceeding life imprisonment, if, in the course of committing the offense, the offender makes an assault or battery upon any person. § 810.02(2)(a), Fla. Stat.
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The defendant entered a structure or conveyance owned by or in the possession of the alleged victim.
an offense other than burglary or trespass in that structure or conveyance.
When the compounded offense of burglary with an assault or burglary with a battery is charged, the jury can convict on two lesser-included offenses. See Gian-Grasso v. State, 899 So. 2d 392 (Fla. 4th DCA 2005).
The jury instructions for burglary were adopted in 1981 and amended in 1985 [477 So.2d 985], 1997 [697 So.2d 84], 2003 [850 So.2d 1272], 2007 [962 So. 2d 310], 2008 [986 So. 2d 563], 2013 [109 So. 3d 721], 2015 [176 So. 3d 938], and 2017.
An affirmative defense might exist if the defendant meets his or her burden of production that he or she had an invitation or license to enter, or that the premises were open to the public. State v. Hicks, 421 So. 2d 510 (Fla. 1982) and State v. Waters, 436 So. 2d 66 (Fla. 1983).
The failure to instruct on consent constitutes fundamental error where consent is the sole or primary defense. Faulk v. State, 222 So. 3d 621 (Fla. 1st DCA 2017) and Harrison v. State, 229 So. 3d 830 (Fla. 4th DCA 2017).
It is a defense to the crime of Burglary if [(defendant) was [licensed] [or] [invited] to enter the [structure] [conveyance]] [the premises were open to the public at the time of the entering]. The State has the burden of proving beyond a reasonable doubt that [(defendant) was not [licensed] [or] [invited] to enter the [structure] [conveyance]] [the premises were not open to the public at the time of the entering].
If the [license] [invitation] to enter was obtained by (defendant’s) trick or fraud or deceit, then the [license] [invitation] to enter was not valid.
If (defendant) entered premises that were open to the public, but then entered an area of the premises that [he] [she] knew or should have known was not open to the public, (defendant) committed a burglary if [he] [she] entered that non-public area with the intent to commit [(the crime alleged)] [an offense other than burglary or trespass] in that non-public area.
(Defendant) had permission or consent to enter a [structure] [conveyance] owned by or in the possession of (person alleged).
with the intent to commit or attempt to commit a [forcible felony listed in § 776.08 Fla. Stat.] [(the forcible felony alleged)] inside the [structure] [conveyance].
Under Florida law, to be considered burglary, the entry necessary need not be the whole body of the defendant. Instead, sufficient evidence might exist if it is proven that the defendant, with the intent to commit a crime, extends any part of his or her body into the structure or conveyance.
Even though an unlawful entering or remaining in a structure or conveyance is proved, if the evidence does not establish that it was done with the intent to commit the crime alleged or an an offense other than burglary or trespass, then the defendant must be found not guilty of burglary.
Under § 810.011(1), Fla. Stat., the term “structure” is defined to mean “any building of any kind, either temporary or permanent, that has a roof over it, and the enclosed space of ground and outbuildings immediately surrounding that structure. The enclosure need not be continuous as it may have an ungated opening for entering and exiting.” See Dubose v. State, 210 So. 3d 641 (Fla. 2017).
Under § 810.011(3), Fla. Stat., the term “conveyance” is defined to mean any motor vehicle, ship, vessel, railroad vehicle or car, trailer, aircraft or sleeping car; and to enter a conveyance includes taking apart any portion of the conveyance.
The courts have found that it is probably best for the jury to make special findings regarding enhancements instead of listing all of the necessary lesser-included offenses of the highest form of Burglary charged. See Justice Pariente’s concurring opinion in Sanders v. State, 944 So. 2d 203 (Fla. 2006).
Burglary Crime Data from FDLE – Visit the website of the Florida Department of Law Enforcement to find information on burglary including the UCR Definition. The Florida Uniform Crime Reports program defines burglary as “the unlawful entry of a structure to commit a felony or a theft.” Crimes involving the attempted forcible entry are also included. For purposes of the UCR definition, crimes for burglary from a conveyance or within the curtilage is counted as larceny. According to the 2017 Crime in Florida Report Abstract, in 2017, there were 88,778 UCR burglary offenses reported in Florida. A total of 16,463 arrests for burglary were reported to the Florida UCR program including 4,059 juveniles arrests and 12,404 adult arrests.

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