Brooks v. State

Full title: ELIGHER MARQUISE BROOKS, Appellant, v. STATE OF FLORIDA, Appellee

Court: District Court of Appeal of Florida, Second District

Date published: Oct 19, 2011

75 So. 3d 756 (Fla. Dist. Ct. App. 2011)

Opinion

No. 2D10–2058.

2011-10-19

Eligher Marquise BROOKS, Appellant, v. STATE of Florida, Appellee.

Appeal from the Circuit Court for Pinellas County; Thane B. Covert, Judge.James Marion Moorman, Public Defender, and Judith Ellis, Assistant Public Defender, Bartow, for Appellant. Pamela Jo Bondi, Attorney General, Tallahassee, and Cerese Crawford Taylor, Assistant Attorney General, Tampa, for Appellee.

DAVIS

Appeal from the Circuit Court for Pinellas County; Thane B. Covert, Judge.James Marion Moorman, Public Defender, and Judith Ellis, Assistant Public Defender, Bartow, for Appellant. Pamela Jo Bondi, Attorney General, Tallahassee, and Cerese Crawford Taylor, Assistant Attorney General, Tampa, for Appellee.

DAVIS, Judge.

Eligher Brooks challenges his conviction for attempted second-degree murder. For the reasons set forth in Houston v. State, ––– So.3d ––––, 2011 WL 3518029 (Fla. 2d DCA 2011), we reverse and remand for the trial court to hold a new trial. As we did in Houston, we certify conflict with the Fourth District's opinion in Williams v. State, 40 So.3d 72 (Fla. 4th DCA 2010).

NORTHCUTT and BLACK, JJ., Concur.