Court Opinion

ID: 9916722
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Date Created: 2024-01-10 16:02:33.633289+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T13:25:57.355729
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FIRST DISTRICT COURT OF APPEAL
                 STATE OF FLORIDA
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                         No. 1D2022-2232
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ANDRE K. MCKENZIE,

    Appellant,

    v.

STATE OF FLORIDA,

    Appellee.
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On appeal from the Circuit Court for Leon County.
Kevin J. Carroll, Judge.

                         January 10, 2024

PER CURIAM.

     Appellant challenges his convictions and sentences for first
degree murder and second degree attempted murder claiming
error in admitting certain statements. The testimony that one of
the victims identified Appellant as the shooter was properly
admitted as a statement of identification and was not hearsay. See
§ 90.801(2)(c), Fla. Stat. (2022). The statement that Appellant
intended to go to a cell phone store was not offered for truth of the
matter asserted, and so it was also not hearsay. See § 90.801(1)(b),
Fla. Stat. The statement made by one of the victims while
Appellant loaded his firearm was properly admitted under the
excited utterance exception to the hearsay rule. See § 90.803(2),
Fla. Stat. Finally, there was no error in assessing the costs, and
Appellant waived his right to object to the restitution ordered.
    AFFIRMED.

OSTERHAUS, C.J., and ROWE and BILBREY, 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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Jessica J. Yeary, Public Defender, and Kathryn Lane, Assistant
Public Defender, Tallahassee, for Appellant.

Ashley Moody, Attorney General, and Virginia Chester Harris,
Senior Assistant Attorney General, Tallahassee, for Appellee.

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