Case Name: Kelly Elizabeth LOUDERMILK, Appellant, v. STATE of Florida, Appellee
Court: Florida District Court of Appeal
Jurisdiction: Florida
Decision Date: 2017-02-24
Citations: 211 So. 3d 356
Docket Number: Case No. 5D16-728
Parties: Kelly Elizabeth LOUDERMILK, Appellant, v. STATE of Florida, Appellee.
Judges: SAWAYA, TORPY and BERGER, JJ., concur.
Reporter: Southern Reporter, Third Series
Volume: 211
Pages: 356–356

Head Matter:
Kelly Elizabeth LOUDERMILK, Appellant, v. STATE of Florida, Appellee.
Case No. 5D16-728
District Court of Appeal of Florida, Fifth District.
Opinion filed February 24, 2017
James S. Purdy, Public Defender, and Kathryn Rollison Radtke, Assistant Public Defender, Daytona Beach, for Appellant.
Pamela Jo Bondi, Attorney General, Tallahassee, and Pamela J. Roller, Assistant Attorney General, Daytona Beach, for Ap-pellee.

Opinion:
PER CURIAM.
Kelly Elizabeth Loudermilk appeals her judgment and sentence for trafficking in oxycodone and conspiracy to traffic in oxy-codone. Loudermilk contends that the trial court erred in: 1) denying her motion for continuance to secure the testimony of two codefendants that she alleged would support an entrapment defense; and 2) applying the incorrect legal standard to her motion for new trial. We affirm as to the first issue without further discussion but reverse and remand as to the second.
The proper standard to address a defendant's motion for new trial is the weight of the evidence. See Lee v. State, 117 So.3d 848, 849 (Fla. 5th DCA 2013); Santiago v. State, 874 So.2d 617, 625 (Fla. 5th DCA 2004). In this ease, the trial court incorporated its order denying Loudermilk's motion for judgment of acquittal, in which it appliecj a sufficiency of the evidence standard, into its order denying her motion for new trial. Accordingly, these orders suggest that the trial court also utilized a sufficiency of the evidence standard when considering Loudermilk's motion for new trial. We therefore reverse and remand on this issue for the trial court to consider Louderrailk's motion for new trial pursuant to the weight of the evidence standard. See King v. State, 183 So.3d 1071, 1072 (Fla. 5th DCA 2015).
AFFIRMED in part; REVERSED in part; REMANDED.
SAWAYA, TORPY and BERGER, JJ., concur.