Willie Styles III v. State of Florida

2024-2205Fladistctapp4

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D ISTRICT C OURT OF A PPEAL O F T HE STATE OF F LORIDA
FOURTH DISTRICT
WILLIE STYLES III,
Appellant,
v.
STATE OF FLORIDA,
Appellee.
No. 4D2024-2205
[April 1, 2026]
Appeal from the Circuit Court for the Fifteenth Judicial Circuit, Palm
Beach County; Sarah Willis, Judge; L.T. Case No. 502021CF006524AXXX.
Daniel Eisinger, Public Defender, and Gary Lee Caldwell, Assistant
Public Defender, West Palm Beach, for appellant.
James 	Uthmeier, 	Attorney 	General, 	Tallahassee, 	and 	Luke 	Robert
Napodano, Senior Assistant Attorney General, for appellee.
PER CURIAM .
Affirmed. See Alexander v. State, 417 So. 3d 368, 374–75 (Fla. 4th DCA
2025) 	(holding 	that 	inclusion 	of 	the 	amended 	statutory 	definition 	of
“female genitals” in a jury instruction for pre-amendment conduct was not
fundamental error where the victim testified to penetration of the vagina
and the exact anatomical point of penetration was not in dispute).
LEVINE , F ORST and S HEPHERD, JJ., concur.
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Not final until disposition of timely-filed motion for rehearing.

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DISTRICT COURT OF APPEAL OF THE STATE OF FLORIDA
FOURTH DISTRICT

WILLIE STYLES III,
Appellant,

Vv.

STATE OF FLORIDA,
Appellee.

No. 4D2024-2205
[April 1, 2026]

Appeal from the Circuit Court for the Fifteenth Judicial Circuit, Palm
Beach County; Sarah Willis, Judge; L.T. Case No. 502021CFO06524AXKXX.

Daniel Eisinger, Public Defender, and Gary Lee Caldwell, Assistant
Public Defender, West Palm Beach, for appellant.

James Uthmeier, Attorney General, Tallahassee, and Luke Robert
Napodano, Senior Assistant Attorney General, for appellee.

PER CURIAM.

Affirmed. See Alexander v. State, 417 So. 3d 368, 374-75 (Fla. 4th DCA
2025) (holding that inclusion of the amended statutory definition of
“female genitals” in a jury instruction for pre-amendment conduct was not
fundamental error where the victim testified to penetration of the vagina
and the exact anatomical point of penetration was not in dispute).

LEVINE, FORST and SHEPHERD, JJ., concur.

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Not final until disposition of timely-filed motion for rehearing.

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