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Chavez v. State, Case No. 1D08-1532 (Fla. App. 12/8/2009) (Fla. App., 2009)

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DANIEL CHAVEZ, Appellant, v. STATE OF FLORIDA, Appellee. Case No. 1D08-1532. District Court of Appeal of Florida, First District. Opinion filed December 8, 2009. An appeal from the Circuit Court for Wakulla County, N. Sanders Sauls, Judge. Nancy A. Daniels, Public Defender, Glen P. Gifford and Maria Ines Suber, Assistant Public Defenders, Tallahassee, for Appellant. Bill McCollum, Attorney General, Thomas H. Duffy and Giselle D. Lylen, Assistant Attorneys General, and Trisha Meggs Pate, Tallahassee Bureau Chief, Criminal Appeals, Tallahassee, for Appellee. THOMAS, J. In this appeal, Daniel Chavez, Appellant, challenges his conviction for the first-degree murder of his wife, Kathy Chavez. He asserts that the trial court committed reversible error by admitting hearsay statements regarding his threats to harm his wife if she left the marriage...continue to full post

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