Case Name: Ivan FERNANDEZ, Appellant, v. The STATE of Florida, Appellee
Court: Florida District Court of Appeal
Jurisdiction: Florida
Decision Date: 2006-12-20
Citations: 944 So. 2d 1227
Docket Number: No. 3D05-2311
Parties: Ivan FERNANDEZ, Appellant, v. The STATE of Florida, Appellee.
Judges: Before COPE, C.J., and GREEN, J., and SCHWARTZ, Senior Judge.
Reporter: Southern Reporter, Second Series
Volume: 944
Pages: 1227–1228

Head Matter:
Ivan FERNANDEZ, Appellant, v. The STATE of Florida, Appellee.
No. 3D05-2311.
District Court of Appeal of Florida, Third District.
Dec. 20, 2006.
Bennett H. Brummer, Public Defender and Robert Godfrey, Assistant Public Defender, for appellant.
Charles J. Crist, Jr., Attorney General and Lucretia A. Pitts, Assistant Attorney General, for appellee.
Before COPE, C.J., and GREEN, J., and SCHWARTZ, Senior Judge.

Opinion:
PER CURIAM.
The defendant appeals from a conviction for second degree murder on grounds that the trial court committed fundamental error in reading to the jury the forcible felony exception to the self-defense instruction. Given the undisputed fact that the appellant's defense at trial was that of misidentification rather than self-defense, we find the giving of this challenged instruction to be a non-issue in this case. Accordingly, we affirm.
. This instruction had been given at the request of the State, but without objection by the defense.