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Lamb v. State

Citations

  • 18 So. 3d 734
  • 2009 Fla. App. LEXIS 15572
  • 2009 WL 3278689

How courts have described this case

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  • holding that the trial court committed fundamental error by giving the standard jury instruction for attempted manslaughter by act
  • “[T]he standard jury instruction for attempted manslaughter by act ... adds the additional element that the defendant ‘committed an act intended to cause the death’ of the victim when attempted manslaughter by act requires only an intentional unlawful act.”
  • “[T]he standard jury instruction for attempted manslaughter by act ... adds the additional element that the defendant ‘committed an act intended to cause the death’ of the victim when attempted manslaughter by act requires only an intentional unlawful act.”

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Judges: Barfield, Kahn, Van Nortwick

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