Reed v. State

Full title: KENNETH REED, APPELLANT, v. STATE OF FLORIDA, APPELLEE

Court: District Court of Appeal of Florida, Fourth District

Date published: Aug 13, 1997

698 So. 2d 1271 (Fla. Dist. Ct. App. 1997)

Opinion

Case No. 96-2083

Opinion filed August 13, 1997. Rehearing Denied September 23, 1997.

Appeal from the Circuit Court for the Seventeenth Judicial Circuit, Broward County; Barry E. Goldstein, Judge; L.T. Case No. 94-14499 CF10A.

Richard L. Jorandby, Public Defender, and David McPherrin, Assistant Public Defender, West Palm Beach, for appellant.

Robert A. Butterworth, Attorney General, Tallahassee, and John Tiedemann, Assistant Attorney General, West Palm Beach, for appellee.

PER CURIAM.

We affirm. The defendant's act of taking the victim's purse with such force as to break the strap and bruise her shoulder distinguishes this case from Robinson v. State, 692 So.2d 883 (Fla. 1997).

AFFIRMED.

DELL, GUNTHER and GROSS, JJ., concur.