Case Name: Mark A. AQUINO, Appellant, v. STATE of Florida, Appellee
Court: Florida District Court of Appeal
Jurisdiction: Florida
Decision Date: 2009-02-13
Citations: 4 So. 3d 40
Docket Number: No. 5D07-3249
Parties: Mark A. AQUINO, Appellant, v. STATE of Florida, Appellee.
Judges: GRIFFIN, ORFINGER and COHEN, JJ., concur.
Reporter: Southern Reporter, Third Series
Volume: 4
Pages: 40–41

Head Matter:
Mark A. AQUINO, Appellant, v. STATE of Florida, Appellee.
No. 5D07-3249.
District Court of Appeal of Florida, Fifth District.
Feb. 13, 2009.
Rehearing Denied March 13, 2009.
James S. Purdy, Public Defender, and Kevin R. Holtz, Assistant Public Defender, Daytona Beach, for Appellant.
Bill McCollum, Attorney General, Tallahassee, and Douglas T. Squire, Assistant Attorney General, Daytona Beach, for Ap-pellee.

Opinion:
PER CURIAM.
Appellant, Mark A. Aquino ["Aquino"], was charged and tried on charges of first-degree murder and accessory after the fact to first-degree murder. During trial, he contended that the evidence was inadequate to prove accessory after the fact to first-degree murder and requested an instruction on accessory after the fact to aggravated battery as a lesser included offense. The trial court denied his motion for judgment of acquittal, but gave the requested instruction, as well as instructions on additional lesser included offenses. The jury acquitted Aquino on the first-degree murder charge and found him guilty of accessory after the fact to first-degree murder. We agree that the evidence admitted at trial was insufficient to support the aeeessory-to-murder conviction, but the evidence is ample to support a conviction of accessory after the fact to aggravated battery. We order the judgment be amended accordingly and that Aquino be resentenced in accordance with the amended judgment of conviction of accessory after the fact to aggravated battery.
REVERSED and REMANDED.
GRIFFIN, ORFINGER and COHEN, JJ., concur.