Sweeting v. State

Full title: TODD SWEETING, APPELLANT, v. THE STATE OF FLORIDA, APPELLEE

Court: District Court of Appeal of Florida, Third District

Date published: Jul 17, 1996

676 So. 2d 531 (Fla. Dist. Ct. App. 1996)

Opinion

No. 95-3107.

July 17, 1996.

An appeal from the Circuit Court for Dade County, Leslie B. Rothenberg, Judge.

Bennett H. Brummer, Public Defender and Robert Kalter, Assistant Public Defender, for appellant.

Robert A. Butterworth, Attorney General and Douglas Gurnic, Assistant Attorney General, for appellee.

Before JORGENSON, COPE and GREEN, JJ.

PER CURIAM.

We find the claimed error to be harmless in light of the other overwhelming evidence of guilt which included a valid confession by the defendant. State v. DiGuilio, 491 So.2d 1129, 1139 (Fla. 1986).

Affirmed.

JORGENSON and GREEN, JJ., concur.

COPE, Judge (specially concurring).

I concur in affirming the convictions. The defendant opened the door to the testimony he now complains about, and the trial court had the discretion to allow the State some latitude to explore the issue on redirect examination. In my view there was no evidentiary error.