Court Opinion

ID: 4304478
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Date Created: 2018-08-16 16:06:07.402568+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T14:07:38.722131
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FIRST DISTRICT COURT OF APPEAL
                STATE OF FLORIDA
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                         No. 1D17-3367
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WILLIE GEORGE DIXON, JR.,

    Appellant,

    v.

STATE OF FLORIDA,

    Appellee.
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On appeal from the Circuit Court for Escambia County.
Gary L. Bergosh, Judge.

                        August 16, 2018

PER CURIAM.

      Willie George Dixon, Jr. raises three issues on appeal. The
first, regarding the trial court’s failure to conduct a proper
competency determination, requires reversal—which the State
concedes. The other two we find to be without merit. The remedy
is a remand for the trial court to conduct a nunc pro tunc
competency evaluation; if one cannot be done, Dixon must receive
a new trial. See Brooks v. State, 180 So. 3d 1094, 1095 (Fla. 1st
DCA 2015).

MAKAR, WINOKUR, and WINSOR, JJ., concur.
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    Not final until disposition of any timely and
    authorized motion under Fla. R. App. P. 9.330 or
    9.331.
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Andy Thomas, Public Defender, and Justin Foster Karpf,
Assistant Public Defender, Tallahassee, for Appellant.

Pamela Jo Bondi, Attorney General, and Steven Edward Woods,
Assistant Attorney General, Tallahassee, for Appellee.

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