District Court of Appeal of Florida May 13, 2011, 5D09-2449 (Paul v. State)

COHEN, J.

Vishaul Paul was convicted of second-degree murder. This was Paul’s second trial; the first ended in a mistrial after a hung jury. The primary evidence against Paul was the testimony of his seventeen-year-old brother-in-law and codefendant, Dhanesh Hardeosingh, who entered a plea to second-degree murder with a negotiated sentence of seventeen and one-half years in the Department of