Tyler James Whitham v. State of Florida
CourtDistrict Court of Appeal of Florida
Date FiledJuly 31, 2020
Docket2D16-3388
StatusPublished
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NOT FINAL UNTIL TIME EXPIRES TO FILE REHEARING
MOTION AND, IF FILED, DETERMINED
IN THE DISTRICT COURT OF APPEAL
OF FLORIDA
SECOND DISTRICT
TYLER JAMES WHITHAM, )
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Appellant, )
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v. ) Case No. 2D16-3388
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STATE OF FLORIDA, )
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Appellee. )
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Opinion filed July 31, 2020.
Appeal from the Circuit Court for Sarasota
County; Charles E. Roberts, Judge.
Howard L. Dimmig, II, Public Defender,
and Joanna Beth Conner, Assistant
Public Defender, Bartow, for Appellant.
Ashley Moody, Attorney General,
Tallahassee, Bilal Ahmed Faruqui, Assistant
Attorney General, and Allison Heim,
Assistant Attorney General (substituted as
counsel of record), Tampa, for Appellee.
ON REMAND FROM THE FLORIDA SUPREME COURT
KELLY, Judge.
This case is before us on remand from the Florida Supreme Court, which
quashed this court's opinion in Whitham v. State, 44 Fla. L. Weekly D975 (Fla. 2d DCA
April 17, 2019), and remanded for reconsideration upon application of its decision in
Love v. State, 286 So. 3d 177 (Fla. 2019). Because Whitham's Stand-Your-Ground
immunity hearing was held before the effective date of the 2017 amendment to section
776.032(4), Florida Statutes, which shifted the burden of proof to the State,1 he is not
entitled to a new immunity hearing under the amended statute. Id. at 190 (holding that
the amendment to section 776.032 is a procedural change to the law that only applies to
immunity hearings conducted on or after the effective date of the amendment).
Accordingly, we affirm Whitham's judgment and sentence.
Affirmed.
MORRIS and LUCAS, JJ., Concur.
1Ch. 2017-72, ยงยง 1-2, Laws of Florida.
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