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Moore v. State

Citations

  • 932 So. 2d 524
  • 2006 WL 1686603

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  • explaining that an instruction on a permissive lesser included offense is required “if the charging instrument and the evidence admitted would support a conviction on the next lesser offense” (emphasis added)
  • “Here, the evidence established, and no one disputed, the mobile home was used as a dwelling.”
  • “[B]oth the charging document and the evidence supported a finding that the mobile home was a nonresidential, unoccupied structure.”
  • “The schedule of lesser included offenses is designed to be a complete, authoritative compilation that is presumed to be correct and upon which a trial court can confidently rely.”
  • “While a structure is not always a dwelling, a dwelling is always a structure within the broad definition of the term ‘structure’ found in the arson statute.... ”
  • “The schedule of lesser included offenses [found in the standard jury instructions] is designed to be a complete, authoritative compilation that is 14 presumed to be correct and upon which a trial court can confidently rely.”

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