CopyCited 277 times | Published | Florida 2nd District Court of Appeal | 2006 WL 3686484
...ding advertisements in violation of sections
817.06 and
817.41, Florida Statutes (2001), forging consumers' signatures on inspection documents in violation of section
831.01, Florida Statutes (2001), defrauding and cheating consumers in violation of section
817.29, Florida Statutes (2001), and improperly accepting annual renewal payments and other money from consumers in violation of section
812.014, Florida Statutes (2001)....
CopyCited 22 times | Published | Florida 4th District Court of Appeal | 2013 WL 3924091, 2013 Fla. App. LEXIS 11992
...As grounds for his complaint, Aery alleged that Maroone fired him for reporting the practices of the body shop manager, which implicated the following statutes: a. Section
817.413 F.S. — Sale of Used Motor Vehicle Goods as New, a third degree felony; b. Section
817.29 F.S....
CopyCited 12 times | Published | Florida 5th District Court of Appeal
...attempts [10] relate only to statutory offenses and the punishment for common-law offenses under section
775.02, is only on the level of a first degree misdemeanor under §
775.082(4)(a). Even a common-law cheat is a felony of the third degree under section
817.29....
CopyCited 1 times | Published | Florida 2nd District Court of Appeal | 2006 WL 2621781
...Toward, Bartow, for Appellant. Charles J. Crist, Jr., Attorney General, Tallahassee, and William I. Munsey, Jr., Assistant Attorney General, Tampa, for Appellee. WALLACE, Judge. Salah E. Darwish challenges his judgment and sentence for the third-degree felony of cheating, section 817.29, Florida Statutes (2004)....
...Darwish with committing three felonies: initiating the theft of property and trafficking in that property, section
812.019(2), a first-degree felony (count one); scheming to defraud and obtaining property thereby, section
817.034(4)(a)(3), a third-degree felony (count two); and cheating by false pretenses, section
817.29, a third-degree felony (count three)....
...See Pagan v. State,
830 So.2d 792, 803 (Fla. 2002); Bradford v. State,
460 So.2d 926, 930 (Fla. 2d DCA 1984). To address this question, we turn now to an examination of the relatively obscure offense of cheating. B. The Cheating Statute The cheating statute, section
817.29, provides: Cheating....
CopyCited 1 times | Published | Florida 2nd District Court of Appeal | 2006 WL 1791705
...ding advertisements in violation of sections
817.06 and
817.41, Florida Statutes (2001), forging consumers' signatures on inspection documents in violation of section
831.01, Florida Statutes (2001), defrauding and cheating consumers in violation of section
817.29, Florida Statutes (2001), and improperly accepting annual renewal payments and other money from consumers in *1194 violation of section
812.014, Florida Statutes (2001)....
CopyPublished | Florida 1st District Court of Appeal | 1981 Fla. App. LEXIS 19635
...It appears that appellant was incorrectly charged; that he should have been charged either with obtaining property by false pretenses, now embraced under the Florida Anti-Fencing Act, Sections
812.012-812.037, Florida Statutes, or with obtaining property by false impersonation, Section
817.02, or with cheating, Section
817.29....
CopyPublished | District Court of Appeal of Florida | 1992 Fla. App. LEXIS 7454, 1992 WL 157486
THREADGILL, Judge. The appellee was charged in a two count information with cheating, in violation of section 817.29, Florida Statutes (1989), and petit theft, in violation of section 812.-014(2)(d), Florida Statutes (1989)....
...ng a refrigerator repair for which he received U.S. currency as payment for the parts and labor, said parts not having been replaced....” The trial court granted appellee’s motion to dismiss the cheating count, finding that the cheating statute, section
817.29, had been repealed by implication by sections
812.012 through
812.037, Florida Statutes, the Florida Anti-Fencing Act....
...a contrary intent clearly appears. The appellee, relying on Anglin v. Mayo,
88 So.2d 918 (Fla.1956), argues here and argued below that a positive and manifest inconsistency or repugnancy clearly appears where the identical conduct is condemned under section
817.29 as a third degree felony, and on the other hand under sections
812.012 and
812.014 as a second degree misdemeanor....
...Rooks,
361 So.2d 140, 143 (Fla.1978). *638 Based on the above, we conclude that the Florida Anti-Fencing Act did not implicitly repeal the cheating statute. We therefore reverse the order of the trial court and remand for trial of the appellee under section
817.29....
