Supreme Court of Florida, 1992

The court held that Florida Power owed a duty because its conduct created a foreseeable zone of risk, and that the evidence permitted the jury to find the company’s breach proximately caused McCain’s injury.

Reviewing the First District Court of Appeal's decision under conflict-certiorari jurisdiction, the Supreme Court of Florida approved the affirmance of Traylor's second-degree murder conviction while disapproving the district court's harmless-error standard and restating the DiGuilio beyond-a-reasonable-doubt test.