Case Name: Nestor RIOS, Appellant, v. STATE of Florida, Appellee
Court: Florida District Court of Appeal
Jurisdiction: Florida
Decision Date: 2005-06-03
Citations: 905 So. 2d 931
Docket Number: No. 2D03-395
Parties: Nestor RIOS, Appellant, v. STATE of Florida, Appellee.
Judges: CASANUEVA and LaROSE, JJ, concur.
Reporter: Southern Reporter, Second Series
Volume: 905
Pages: 931–932

Head Matter:
Nestor RIOS, Appellant, v. STATE of Florida, Appellee.
No. 2D03-395.
District Court of Appeal of Florida, Second District.
June 3, 2005.
Rehearing Denied July 12, 2005.
Heather M. Gray of Bodiford & Associates, P.A., Tampa, for Appellant.
Charles J. Crist, Jr., Attorney General, Tallahassee, and Richard M. Franklin, As sistant Attorney General, Tampa, for Ap-pellee.

Opinion:
NORTHCUTT, Judge.
The State charged Nestor Rios and several codefendants with racketeering, conspiracy and drug trafficking offenses. Rios was tried with codefendant Miguel Cabrera. As we have explained in our opinion in Cabrera v. State, 890 So.2d 506, 508 (Fla. 2d DCA 2005), the trial court committed fundamental error by including the conjunction and/or between Rios's and Cabrera's names in the jury instructions for the various crimes. For example, in a trafficking instruction, the judge stated that the jurors must find that "Miguel A. Cabrera and/or Nelson E. Rios knew that the substance was heroin.... " The State has conceded that the decision in Cabrera controls this appeal. Accordingly, we reverse Rios's convictions and remand for a new trial.
Reversed and remanded.
CASANUEVA and LaROSE, JJ, concur.