Case Name: Jose CISNEROS-GONZALEZ, Appellant, v. The STATE of Florida, Appellee
Court: Florida District Court of Appeal
Jurisdiction: Florida
Decision Date: 2016-02-17
Citations: 185 So. 3d 714
Docket Number: No. 3D14-1821
Parties: Jose CISNEROS-GONZALEZ, Appellant, v. The STATE of Florida, Appellee.
Judges: Before SUAREZ, C.J., and EMAS and LOGUE, JJ. •
Reporter: Southern Reporter, Third Series
Volume: 185
Pages: 714–714

Head Matter:
Jose CISNEROS-GONZALEZ, Appellant, v. The STATE of Florida, Appellee.
No. 3D14-1821.
District Court of Appeal of Florida, Third District.
Feb. 17, 2016.
Carlos- J. Martinez, Public Defender, and Shannon Hemmendinger, Assistant Public Defender, for appellant.
Pamela Jo Bondi, Attorney General, and Jay E. Silver, Assistant Attorney General, for appellee.
Before SUAREZ, C.J., and EMAS and LOGUE, JJ. •

Opinion:
ON CONFESSION OF ERROR
logue; J.
.A jury convicted Jose Cisneros-Gonzalez of Mdnapping, sexual battery, and attempted second-degree murder. He raises two issues on appeal: (1) whether the trial court failed to conduct an adequate Nelson hearing; and (2) whether the trial court fundamentally erred when it instructed the jurors that intent to kill was an element of attempted voluntary manslaughter.
Finding no error on the first issue, we affirm Cisneros-Gonzalez's convictions of sexual battery and kidnapping. However, based on the State's proper confession of error pursuant to Griffin v. State, 160 So.3d 63 (Fla.2015), we reverse and remand for a new trial on the attempted second-degree- murder conviction. Like the defendant in Griffin, the defendant here was convicted of a crime one step removed from the erroneous manslaughter instruction, and he did not concede the issue of intent.
Affirmed in part; reversed in part; and remanded for a new trial on the attempted second-degree murder charge.
. Nelson v. State, 274 So.2d 256 (Fla. 4th DCA 1973).