Title: Solano v. State
Citation: N/A
Docket Number: SC10-1350
State: Florida
Issuer: Florida Supreme Court
Date: October 27, 2011

Supreme Court of Florida 
 
 
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No. SC10-1350 
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MYNOR SOLANO,  
Petitioner, 
 
vs. 
 
STATE OF FLORIDA,  
Respondent. 
 
[October 27, 2011] 
 
LABARGA, J. 
 
Mynor Solano seeks review of the decision of the Third District Court of 
Appeal in Solano v. State, 35 So. 3d 930 (Fla. 3d DCA 2010), on the ground that it 
expressly and directly conflicts with a decision of this Court, State v. Montgomery, 
39 So. 3d 252 (Fla. 2010), on a question of law.  We have jurisdiction.  See art. V, 
§ 3(b)(3), Fla. Const. 
 
In State v. Montgomery, 39 So. 3d 252 (Fla. 2010), we held that because 
defendant Montgomery, who was convicted of second-degree murder, was entitled 
to an accurate jury instruction on the necessarily lesser included offense of 
manslaughter by act, the use of the then-standard jury instruction on manslaughter 
 
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by act constituted fundamental reversible error in his case because it erroneously 
required the jury to find that the defendant intentionally caused the death of the 
victim.  We then affirmed the district court’s reversal of Montgomery’s conviction 
for second-degree murder.   
Solano seeks review in this Court on the grounds that the district court’s 
decision in his case conflicts with our decision in Montgomery.  Having issued its 
decision in Solano one day before we issued our opinion in Montgomery, the 
district court did not have the benefit of considering Montgomery.  Accordingly, 
we accept jurisdiction and grant Solano’s petition for review.  The decision under 
review is quashed, and this matter is remanded to the Third District Court of 
Appeal for reconsideration upon application of our decision in Montgomery. 
It is so ordered. 
CANADY, C.J., and PARIENTE, LEWIS, QUINCE, POLSTON, and PERRY, JJ., 
concur. 
 
NOT FINAL UNTIL TIME EXPIRES TO FILE REHEARING MOTION, AND 
IF FILED, DETERMINED. 
 
Application for Review of the Decision of the District Court of Appeal - Direct 
Conflict of Decisions 
 
 
Third District - Case No. 3D07-3210 
 
 
(Dade County) 
 
Carlos J. Martinez, Public Defender, and Andrew M. Stanton, Assistant Public 
Defender, Eleventh Judicial Circuit, Miami, Florida, 
 
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for Petitioner 
 
Pamela Jo Bondi, Attorney General, Tallahassee, Florida, Richard L. Polin, Bureau 
Chief, and Douglas J. Glaid, Assistant Attorneys General, Miami, Florida, 
 
 
for Respondent