Cavallaro v. State

Full title: MARK CAVALLARO, Appellant, v. STATE OF FLORIDA, Appellee

Court: District Court of Appeal of Florida, Fourth District

Date published: Apr 16, 1997

691 So. 2d 605 (Fla. Dist. Ct. App. 1997)

Opinion

Case No. 95-4157

Decision filed April 16, 1997

Appeal from the Circuit Court for the Seventeenth Judicial Circuit, Broward County; Stanton S. Kaplan, Judge; L.T. Case No. 94-12036CF10A.

Richard L. Jorandby, Public Defender, and Cherry Grant, Assistant Public Defender, West Palm Beach, for appellant.

Robert A. Butterworth, Attorney General, Tallahassee, and Myra J. Fried, Assistant Attorney General, West Palm Beach, for appellee.

PER CURIAM.

AFFIRMED.

WARNER and POLEN, JJ., concur.

GROSS, J., dissents with opinion.

GROSS, J., dissenting.

I find that the admission of the police officer's testimony on the horizontal gaze nystagmus test he administered to appellant was error. See State v. Meador, 674 So.2d 826 (Fla. 4th DCA 1996); State v. Bender, 382 So.2d 697 (Fla. 1980). Under the facts of this case, I do not find the error to be harmless underState v. DiGuilio, 491 So.2d 1139 (Fla. 1986).