Collins v. State

Full title: Tavaris D. COLLINS, Appellant, v. STATE of Florida, Appellee.

Court: District Court of Appeal of Florida, Fourth District.

Date published: Oct 9, 2013

123 So. 3d 654 (Fla. Dist. Ct. App. 2013)

Opinion

No. 4D11–4751.

2013-10-9

Tavaris D. COLLINS, Appellant, v. STATE of Florida, Appellee.

Appeal from the Circuit Court for the Fifteenth Judicial Circuit, Palm Beach County; Stephen A. Rapp, Judge; L.T. Case No. 2010CF014335BXX. Carey Haughwout, Public Defender, and Anthony Calvello, Assistant Public Defender, West Palm Beach, for appellant. Pamela Jo Bondi, Attorney General, Tallahassee, and Melanie Dale Surber, Assistant Attorney General, West Palm Beach, for appellee.

PER CURIAM.

Appeal from the Circuit Court for the Fifteenth Judicial Circuit, Palm Beach County; Stephen A. Rapp, Judge; L.T. Case No. 2010CF014335BXX.
Carey Haughwout, Public Defender, and Anthony Calvello, Assistant Public Defender, West Palm Beach, for appellant. Pamela Jo Bondi, Attorney General, Tallahassee, and Melanie Dale Surber, Assistant Attorney General, West Palm Beach, for appellee.
PER CURIAM.

Affirmed. See McDuffie v. State, 970 So.2d 312, 323 n. 2 (Fla.2007); Cooper v. State, 45 So.3d 490, 494 (Fla. 4th DCA 2010) (affirming trial court's exclusion of reverse Williams rule evidence where the “similar fact evidence” “was overly general and did not meet the ‘close similarity of facts, a unique or fingerprint type of information’ test for relevancy”); Neals v. State, 972 So.2d 1047, 1048 (Fla. 3d DCA 2008).

GROSS, MAY and FORST, JJ., concur.