Court Opinion

ID: 9792656
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-31 02:33:21.068252+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T07:37:44.417507
License: Public Domain

KLEINSCHMIDT, Judge,
dissenting in part.
I agree with the majority in all respects except as to the remedy. I believe that a new trial is unnecessary. I would remand to the trial judge with directions, not to reconsider the case in light of the law set out in this opinion, but simply and solely to state the basis for the verdict he entered. If the trial judge accepted the State’s theory that all it needed to do was prove that the Appellant said the words that constituted the offer to sell and found the Appellant guilty on that basis, the Appellant is entitled to be acquitted. If he found the Appellant guilty because he believed the Appellant really intended to offer to sell marijuana and was not just trying to defraud Flores, the conviction should stand.