District Court of Appeal of Florida

In a personal injury suit, judgment for plaintiff is affirmed where the trial court did not abuse its discretion in excluding evidence of a plaintiff witness' prior conviction for income tax evasion after determining that it did not constitute a conviction involving dishonesty or a false statement since the trial judge properly recognized that he was not to conduct a "trial within a trial" and made his ruling based solely on the case law presented to him and his own legal analysis.

Appellate Information

• Decided 11/29/2006
• Published 11/29/2006

Judges

• CORTIÑAS, Judge., Before WELLS, CORTIÑAS, and ROTHENBERG, JJ.

Court

• District Court of Appeal of Florida

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• George, Hartz, & Lundeen and Charles M-P George, Coral Gables, and Mitchell L. Lundeen, for appellants.


• For Appellees:
  
• Lauri Waldman Ross and Theresa L. Girten, Miami;  William C. Ruggiero, Ft. Lauderdale, for appellee.