Ramirez v. State

Full title: EVA RAMIREZ, APPELLANT, v. THE STATE OF FLORIDA, APPELLEE

Court: District Court of Appeal of Florida, Third District

Date published: Oct 11, 1983

438 So. 2d 976 (Fla. Dist. Ct. App. 1983)

Opinion

No. 82-857.

October 11, 1983.

Appeal from the Circuit Court, Dade County, Murray Goldman, J.

Entin, Schwartz, Dion Sclafani, Miami, and Spencer D. Levine, North Miami Beach, for appellant.

Jim Smith, Atty. Gen., and Richard E. Doran, Asst. Atty. Gen., for appellee.

Before BARKDULL, NESBITT and JORGENSON, JJ.

PER CURIAM.

We affirm defendant Eva Ramirez's convictions and the sentences entered thereon upon a holding that a defendant who voluntarily absents herself during the course of the trial proceedings cannot later be heard to complain, without a proper and timely objection during the course of the proceedings, of procedural irregularity. See Clark v. State, 363 So.2d 331 (Fla. 1978); State v. Melendez, 244 So.2d 137 (Fla. 1971); Fla.R. Crim.P. 3.180(a), (b).

Affirmed.