State of Florida v. Devon Alexander Morgan

• Court: District Court of Appeal of Florida
• Decided: August 22, 2025
• Docket: 6D2023-3608
• Status: Published

Opinion

SIXTH DISTRICT COURT OF APPEAL STATE OF FLORIDA _____________________________

Case No. 6D2023-3608 Lower Tribunal No. 2023-CF-003974-O _____________________________

STATE OF FLORIDA,

Appellant,

v.

DEVON ALEXANDER MORGAN,

Appellee. _____________________________

Appeal from the Circuit Court for Orange County. Kevin B. Weiss, Judge.

August 22, 2025

PER CURIAM.

For the reasons stated in State v. Herard, 50 Fla. L. Weekly D1822 (Fla. 6th

DCA Aug. 15, 2025), we reverse the trial court’s dismissal of the Information in this

case and remand for further proceedings consistent with our opinion in Herard.

REVERSED and REMANDED.

GANNAM, J., and LAMBERT, B.D., Associate Judge, concur. WHITE, J., concurs in part, dissents in part, with opinion. _____________________________

NOT FINAL UNTIL TIME EXPIRES TO FILE MOTION FOR REHEARING AND DISPOSITION THEREOF IF TIMELY FILED _____________________________

WHITE, J., concurring in part, dissenting in part.

I concur in part, dissent in part, for the reasons expressed in State v. Herard,

50 Fla. L. Weekly D1822 (Fla. 6th DCA Aug. 15, 2025) (White, J., concurring in

part, dissenting in part), and would affirm the trial court’s dismissal of the

Information in this case.1

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James Uthmeier, Attorney General, Tallahassee, and Richard A. Pallas, Jr., Assistant Attorney General, Daytona Beach, for Appellant.

Blair Allen, Public Defender, and Maureen E. Surber, Assistant Public Defender, Bartow, for Appellee.

1 Under the circumstances, I decline to adopt the majority opinion in Herard. See Normandy Ins. Co. v. Bouayad, 372 So. 3d 671, 695–99 (Fla. 1st DCA 2023) (Tanenbaum, J., concurring in the denial of rehearing en banc). 2