Travon Wilds v. State of Florida

Third District Court of Appeal
State of Florida
Opinion filed November 12, 2025.
Not final until disposition of timely filed motion for rehearing.
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No. 3D24-0205
Lower Tribunal No. F20-16097B
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Travon Wilds,
Appellant,
vs.
State of Florida,
Appellee.
An Appeal from the Circuit Court for Miami-Dade County, Teresa Mary
Pooler, Judge.
Eugene F. Zenobi, Office of Criminal Conflict and Civil Regional
Counsel, Third Region, and Kristen Kawass, Assistant Regional Counsel, for
appellant.
James Uthmeier, Attorney General, and Katryna Santa Cruz, Assistant
Attorney General, for appellee.
Before SCALES, C.J., and MILLER and BOKOR, JJ.
PER CURIAM.

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Affirmed. See Talley v. State, 260 So. 3d 562, 572 (Fla. 3d DCA 2019)
(explaining that fundamental error occurs in closing argument where the
improper comment “affected the validity of [the defendant’s] trial such that,
but for the comment, the jury could not have reached the verdict it did”);
Lammons v. State, 246 So. 3d 524, 527 (Fla. 3d DCA 2018) (concluding that
the prosecutor’s improper remark during closing argument did not contribute
to the jury’s verdict where the defendant was “charged with, and the state
argued that he should be convicted of, second-degree murder, but the jury
came back with the lesser-included offense of manslaughter”); Jones v.
State, 666 So. 2d 995, 998 (Fla. 5th DCA 1996) (“Because the evidence of
Jones’ guilt was compelling and overwhelming, we hold that the prosecutor’s
comments did not so impair the fairness of the trial as to constitute
fundamental error.”).