Stephen Alexander Gonzales McCoy v. State of Florida

Third District Court of Appeal
State of Florida
Opinion filed January 14, 2026.
Not final until disposition of timely filed motion for rehearing.
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No. 3D24-1038
Lower Tribunal No. F22-1678 B
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Stephen Alexander Gonzales McCoy,
Appellant,
vs.
State of Florida,
Appellee.
An Appeal from the Circuit Court for Miami-Dade County, Ellen Sue
Venzer, Judge.
Carlos J. Martinez, Public Defender, and Susan S. Lerner, Assistant
Public Defender, for appellant.
James Uthmeier, Attorney General, and Camilo Montoya, Assistant
Attorney General, for appellee.
Before SCALES, C.J., and MILLER and BOKOR, JJ.
PER CURIAM.

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Affirmed. See State v. Richards, 843 So. 2d 962, 965 (Fla. 3d DCA
2003) (recognizing that if there has been a recantation, the State generally
may impeach its own witness with a prior inconsistent statement where the
State calls the witness with the reasonable expectation that the witness will
testify to something helpful to the State’s case aside from the prior
inconsistent statement); see also Valentine v. State, 307 So. 3d 726, 737
(Fla. 4th DCA 2020) (concluding that any error resulting from a witness’s
hearsay identification of the defendant in a surveillance video was harmless,
in part, because the defendant’s face could be seen in the video and the jury
viewed the video).