Opinion
Case No. 5D21-988
02-01-2022
Jaquez Tuijay SMITH, Appellant, v. STATE of Florida, Appellee.
Tonya D. Cromartie, of The Law Office of Tonya D. Cromartie, P.A., Daytona Beach, for Appellant. Ashley Moody, Attorney General, Tallahassee, and Robin A. Compton, Assistant Attorney General, Daytona Beach, for Appellee.
Tonya D. Cromartie, of The Law Office of Tonya D. Cromartie, P.A., Daytona Beach, for Appellant.
Ashley Moody, Attorney General, Tallahassee, and Robin A. Compton, Assistant Attorney General, Daytona Beach, for Appellee.
PER CURIAM.
AFFIRMED. See Bush v. State , 295 So. 3d 179, 184 (Fla. 2020) (abandoning special standard of appellate review previously applied in wholly circumstantial evidence cases); Staten v. State , 519 So. 2d 622, 624 (Fla. 1988) (holding that "[c]learly, the getaway driver who has prior knowledge of the criminal plan and is ‘waiting to help the robbers escape’ ... [is] a principal" (citing Enmund v. State , 399 So. 2d 1362, 1370 (Fla. 1981) )); Hill v. State , 958 So. 2d 549, 552 (Fla. 4th DCA 2007) (affirming the denial of a motion for judgment of acquittal based upon an insufficiency of the evidence argument where the defendant watched his companion commit a crime, waited for him to return to the vehicle, and then drove the companion and the stolen property away); Jennings v. State , 124 So. 3d 257, 266 (Fla. 3d DCA 2013) ("Generally speaking, the use of a curative instruction to dispel the prejudicial effect of an objectionable comment is sufficient." (quoting Rivera v. State , 745 So. 2d 343, 345 (Fla. 4th DCA 1999) )).
LAMBERT, C.J., EVANDER and NARDELLA, JJ., concur.