Case Name: Antonio SIMMONS, Appellant, v. STATE of Florida, Appellee
Court: Florida District Court of Appeal
Jurisdiction: Florida
Decision Date: 2010-04-26
Citations: 33 So. 3d 807
Docket Number: No. 1D08-5316
Parties: Antonio SIMMONS, Appellant, v. STATE of Florida, Appellee.
Judges: WOLF, LEWIS, and MARSTILLER, JJ., concur.
Reporter: Southern Reporter, Third Series
Volume: 33
Pages: 807–808

Head Matter:
Antonio SIMMONS, Appellant, v. STATE of Florida, Appellee.
No. 1D08-5316.
District Court of Appeal of Florida, First District.
April 26, 2010.
Nancy A. Daniels, Public Defender, and M. Gene Stephens, Assistant Public Defender, Tallahassee, for Appellant.
Bill McCollum, Attorney General, and Brooke Poland, Assistant Attorney General, Tallahassee, for Appellee.

Opinion:
PER CURIAM.
In State v. Montgomery, — So.3d -, -, 2010 WL 1372701 (Fla.2010), in which the defendant was convicted of second-degree murder, the Florida Supreme Court held it was fundamental error to give the standard jury instruction for manslaughter by act as a lesser-included offense of second-degree murder because the manslaughter instruction improperly required the state to prove the defendant intentionally caused the death of the victim while the instruction for second-degree murder did not. Because this case is in distinguishable from Montgomery, we REVERSE and REMAND.
WOLF, LEWIS, and MARSTILLER, JJ., concur.