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Third District Court of Appeal
                               State of Florida

                         Opinion filed April 10, 2024.
       Not final until disposition of timely filed motion for rehearing.
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                             No. 3D22-1587
                      Lower Tribunal No. M22-11385
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                            Jacquline Buddoo,
                                Appellant,

                                     vs.

                           The State of Florida,
                                Appellee.

     An Appeal from the County Court for Miami-Dade County, Cristina
Rivera Correa, Judge.

      Carlos J. Martinez, Public Defender, and Nicholas A. Lynch, Assistant
Public Defender, for appellant.

      Ashley Moody, Attorney General, and Kayla Heather McNab, Assistant
Attorney General, for appellee.

Before EMAS, FERNANDEZ and SCALES, JJ.

     PER CURIAM.
      Jacquline Buddoo appeals her August 23, 2022 conviction, after a jury

trial, for the offense of battery. We affirm. See § 784.03, Fla. Stat. (2022)

(“The offense of battery occurs when a person: 1. Actually and intentionally

touches or strikes another person against the will of the other; or 2.

Intentionally causes bodily harm to another person”); Knight v. State, 286

So. 3d 147, 151 (Fla. 2019) (“Jury instruction errors are subject to the

contemporaneous objection rule. In the absence of a contemporaneous

objection at trial, a jury instruction error is only subject to relief in the event

of fundamental error.”) (citations omitted); Tomas v. State, 126 So. 3d 1086,

1088 (Fla. 4th DCA 2012) (holding that a failure to give a jury instruction on

a foreign language recording translation was not fundamental error because

such an instruction would “not go to an essential element of the offenses

charged”); see also Fernandez v. State, 786 So. 2d 38, 41 (Fla. 3d DCA

2001).

      Affirmed.

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