DAVONTE MCRAE v. STATE OF FLORIDA

S IXTH D ISTRICT C OURT OF APPEAL
S TATE OF FLORIDA
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Case No. 6D2024-0992
Lower Tribunal No. 2021-CF-12586-B-O
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D AVONTE MCR AE ,
Appellant,
v.
S TATE OF F LORIDA ,
Appellee.
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Appeal from the Circuit Court for Orange County.
Diego M. Madrigal, III, Judge.
March 13, 2026
PER CURIAM.
AFFIRMED. See Applegate v. Barnett Bank of Tallahassee, 377 So. 2d 1150,
1152 (Fla. 1979) (“Even when based on erroneous reasoning, a conclusion or
decision of a trial court will generally be affirmed if the evidence or an alternative
theory supports it.”); Trappman v. State, 384 So. 3d 742, 747 (Fla. 2024) (“[F]or
double jeopardy protection to apply, . . . the offenses must be the same in law and in
fact.” (quoting Burton v. United States, 202 U.S. 344, 380 (1906) (internal quotations
omitted; emphasis in original))), reh’g denied sub nom., Trappman v. Fla., No.
SC2021-1479, 2024 WL 1510590 (Fla. Apr. 8, 2024); § 775.021(4)(a), Fla. Stat.

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(2025) (“[O]ffenses are separate if each offense requires proof of an element that the
other does not, without regard to the accusatory pleading or the proof adduced at
trial.”).
TRAVER, C.J., and MIZE and PRATT, JJ., concur.
Jonathan Mills, Orlando, for Appellant.
James Uthmeier, Attorney General, Tallahassee, and Daniel Caldwell, Assistant
Attorney General, Daytona Beach, for Appellee.
NOT FINAL UNTIL TIME EXPIRES TO FILE MOTION FOR REHEARING
AND DISPOSITION THEREOF IF TIMELY FILED