Court Opinion

ID: 4856802
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2021-08-24 22:04:27.280773+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T08:11:51.527982
License: Public Domain

COHEN, J,
concurring specially.
This court, albeit another panel, has reversed the conviction of one of Appellant’s codefendants, Brian Harvey. Harvey also questioned the trial court’s denial of a requested independent act jury instruction. These opinions are not inconsistent because the evidence established that Appellant, unlike Harvey, was aware of the third codefendant’s plan to steal the victim’s money under the guise of a drug deal and was also aware that his codefendant was in possession of a firearm.
As in Roberts v. State, 4 So.3d 1261 (Fla. 5th DCA 2009), there was uncontroverted evidence that Appellant knew of the planned robbery, participated in it, and *345was aware that one of his cofelons was armed. The trial court did not err in failing to instruct on independent act.