Opinion
No. 3D14–1821.
02-17-2016
Jose CISNEROS–GONZALEZ, Appellant, v. The STATE of Florida, Appellee.
Carlos J. Martinez, Public Defender, and Shannon Hemmendinger, Assistant Public Defender, for appellant. Pamela Jo Bondi, Attorney General, and Jay E. Silver, Assistant Attorney General, for appellee.
Carlos J. Martinez, Public Defender, and Shannon Hemmendinger, Assistant Public Defender, for appellant.
Pamela Jo Bondi, Attorney General, and Jay E. Silver, Assistant Attorney General, for appellee.
Before SUAREZ, C.J., and EMAS and LOGUE, JJ.
ON CONFESSION OF ERROR
LOGUE, J.
A jury convicted Jose Cisneros–Gonzalez of kidnapping, sexual battery, and attempted second-degree murder. He raises two issues on appeal: (1) whether the trial court failed to conduct an adequate Nelson hearing; and (2) whether the trial court fundamentally erred when it instructed the jurors that intent to kill was an element of attempted voluntary manslaughter.
Finding no error on the first issue, we affirm Cisneros–Gonzalez's convictions of sexual battery and kidnapping. However, based on the State's proper confession of error pursuant to Griffin v. State, 160 So.3d 63 (Fla.2015), we reverse and remand for a new trial on the attempted second-degree murder conviction. Like the defendant in Griffin, the defendant here was convicted of a crime one step removed from the erroneous manslaughter instruction, and he did not concede the issue of intent.
Affirmed in part; reversed in part; and remanded for a new trial on the attempted second-degree murder charge.
Nelson v. State, 274 So.2d 256 (Fla. 4th DCA 1973).