Gamaly Argentina Hollis v. The State of Florida

• Court: District Court of Appeal of Florida
• Decided: August 14, 2024
• Docket: 2023-1530
• Status: Published

Opinion

Third District Court of Appeal State of Florida

Opinion filed August 14, 2024. Not final until disposition of timely filed motion for rehearing.

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No. 3D23-1530 Lower Tribunal No. B22-18897 ________________

Gamaly Argentina Hollis, Appellant,

vs.

The State of Florida, Appellee.

An Appeal from the County Court for Miami-Dade County, Cristina Rivera Correa, Judge.

Carlos J. Martinez, Public Defender and Deborah Prager, Assistant Public Defender, for appellant.

Ashley Moody, Attorney General, and Katryna Santa Cruz, Assistant Attorney General, for appellee.

Before SCALES, MILLER and BOKOR, JJ.

PER CURIAM. Affirmed. See Logue v. Book, 297 So. 3d 605, 611–12 (Fla. 4th DCA

2020) (explaining that “directed at a specific person” under section

784.048(1) “can include communications with third parties” including “social

media postings that are not sent directly to an individual [but] may

nonetheless be directed at an individual in a number of ways, including . . .

sufficiently describing the person in such a way as to make their specific

identification possible” and noting that “[s]uch posts may also be designed

so as to be reasonably likely to come to the attention of the targeted person,

even if indirectly) (emphasis added); see also Johnston v. State, 863 So. 2d

271, 283 (Fla. 2003) (“Generally, an appellate court will not reverse a

conviction that is supported by competent, substantial evidence.”);

Hernandez v. State, 979 So. 2d 1013, 1016 (Fla. 3d DCA 2008) (“The trial

court’s discretion is broad, and the decision to admit evidence will not be

reversed unless there is a clear abuse of discretion.”).