District Court of Appeal of Florida

A conviction and sentence for operating a sports bike without a proper license and driving with a suspended license as a habitual offender is reversed where the cumulative effect of a prosecutor's repeated labeling of defense witnesses as liars, coupled with repeated suggestions that law enforcement officers would not jeopardize their careers, and topped with improper impeachment of defendant regarding his prior convictions, resulted in fundamental error.

Appellate Information

• Decided 09/13/2006
• Published 09/13/2006

Judges

• MAY, J.

Court

• District Court of Appeal of Florida

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Carey Haughwout, Public Defender, and James W. McIntire, Assistant Public Defender, West Palm Beach, for appellant.


• For Appellees:
  
• Charles J. Crist, Jr., Attorney General, Tallahassee, and Daniel P. Hyndman, Assistant Attorney General, West Palm Beach, for appellee.