Court Opinion

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Date Created: 2023-03-22 15:04:02.180066+00
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Third District Court of Appeal
                             State of Florida

                     Opinion filed March 22, 2023.
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                            No. 3D22-856
                     Lower Tribunal No. B20-12670
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                       Fenqwavious Lopez,
                               Appellant,

                                   vs.

                        The State of Florida,
                               Appellee.

     An Appeal from the County Court for Miami-Dade County, Javier
Enriquez, Judge.

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

      Ashley Moody, Attorney General, and Kseniya Smychkouskaya,
Assistant Attorney General, for appellee.

Before FERNANDEZ, C.J., and LOGUE, and LINDSEY, JJ.

                    ON CONFESSION OF ERROR

     PER CURIAM.
      Fenqwavious Lopez appeals a final judgment of conviction and

sentence rendered on April 13, 2022. The sole issue that Lopez raises on

appeal is that the trial court fundamentally erred when it failed to instruct the

jury on an essential element of the charge of resisting an officer without

violence; that is, that the officer was engaged in the lawful execution of a

legal duty at the time when Lopez allegedly resisted. In response, the State

has filed a Notice of Confession of Error.

      Accordingly, based on our review of the record, as well as the State’s

commendable confession of error, the final judgment and sentence are

reversed and the cause is remanded to the trial court for further proceedings.

      Reversed and remanded.

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