Maykel Castillo v. State of Florida

CourtDistrict Court of Appeal of Florida
DecidedOctober 22, 2025
Docket3D2023-1883
StatusPublished

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Opinion

Third District Court of Appeal State of Florida

Opinion filed October 22, 2025. Not final until disposition of timely filed motion for rehearing.

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No. 3D23-1883 Lower Tribunal No. F20-10686 ________________

Maykel Castillo, Appellant,

vs.

State of Florida, Appellee.

An Appeal from the Circuit Court for Miami-Dade County, Laura Shearon Cruz, Judge.

Carlos J. Martinez, Public Defender, and Shannon Hemmendinger, Assistant Public Defender, for appellant.

James Uthmeier, Attorney General, and Ivy R. Ginsberg, Senior Assistant Attorney General, for appellee.

Before EMAS, LOGUE and GOODEN, JJ.

PER CURIAM. Affirmed. See Johnson v. State, 397 So. 3d 626, 638 (Fla. 2024)

(“[F]undamental error is one ‘that reach[es] down into the validity of the trial

itself to the extent that a verdict of guilty could not have been obtained

without the assistance of the alleged error.’”) (quoting Kocaker v. State, 311

So. 3d 814, 824 (Fla. 2020)); Daymon v. State, 744 So. 2d 581 (Fla. 2d DCA

1999); see also Smith v. State, 3D24-0654, 2025 WL 2714446 (Fla. 3d DCA

Sept. 24, 2025); Warren v. State, 307 So. 3d 871 (Fla. 3d DCA 2020).

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Daymon v. State
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