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Florida law generally bans prosecutors from charging a person with a new crime after he or she has already been tried on related offenses. The state\u2019s First District Court of Appeal recently explained how that ban works in a case<\/a> involving a botched drug deal.<\/p>\n

Defendant was charged with armed robbery, aggravated battery with a firearm, and the use of a firearm during the commission of a felony following a drug deal gone wrong. He admitted to going to a house to buy marijuana and shooting one of the men inside, but Defendant said he was acting in self-defense. He said two men tried to rob him when he got to the house. The person who was shot, however, claimed that Defendant tried to steal the marijuana without paying for it and fired the weapon at the men when they chased after him.<\/p>\n

Prosecutors eventually decided not to charge Defendant with use of a firearm during a felony. After the case went to trial, a jury found him not guilty on the armed robbery charge and deadlocked on the aggravated battery charge. Prosecutors decided to retry Defendant on the aggravated robbery charge. They also tacked on a new charge of using a firearm during the commission of a felony. Defendant asked a judge to dismiss the charge, arguing that it was part of the same criminal episode as the armed robbery charge for which he was previously found not guilty. The trial court rejected that request.<\/p>\n

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Florida law generally bans prosecutors from charging a person with a new crime after he or she has already been tried on related offenses. The state\u2019s First District Court of Appeal recently explained how that ban works in a case involving a botched drug deal. Defendant was charged with armed robbery, aggravated battery with a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-420","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-armed-robbery","category-drug-crime"],"yoast_head":"\nWhat You Should Know About Prosecutors Retry Botched<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Facing drug charges? See how this ruling on cant retry botched drug may help or hurt your defense in Clearwater. Want to know your options? 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