District Court of Appeal of Florida

A conviction for first-degree premeditated murder is reversed pursuant to a claim of erroneous denial of a motion for mistrial where the state told the jury in its opening state that it would present evidence of a jail-house confession, and then failed to present such evidence.

Appellate Information

• Decided 03/31/2006
• Published 03/31/2006

Judges

• LaROSE, Judge.

Court

• District Court of Appeal of Florida

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• James Marion Moorman, Public Defender, and Dan Hallenberg, Special Assistant Public Defender, Bartow, for Appellant.


• For Appellees:
  
• Charles J. Crist, Jr., Attorney General, Tallahassee, and Katherine Coombs Cline, Assistant Attorney General, Tampa, for Appellee.