WILLIAM QUINN, APPELLANT,

v.

METROPOLITAN DADE COUNTY AVIATION DEPARTMENT, APPELLEE

Citator

Cited By (31 total)

• Knowles v. State, 632 So. 2d 62 (Fla. 1993)
  …Earl Fagin about shooting people in the trailer park. In both instances, the state asked Knowles, over objection, whether he thought the state’s witness was lying and why. We agree that this line of questioning was improper. In Boatwright v. State, 452 So. 2d 666 (Fla. 4th DCA 1984), the court explained that asking a witness if a prior witness who testified differently is lying is improper for a number of reasons. First, allowing one witness to offer a personal view on the credibility of a fellow witness is…
• Bass v. State, 547 So. 2d 680 (Fla. 1st DCA 1989)
  …an his guilt of the crimes charged. Such comments have been held to constitute reversible error in a long line of cases. See Ryan v. State, 457 So. 2d 1084 (Fla. 4th DCA 1984); Hines v. State, 425 So. 2d 589 (Fla. 3rd DCA 1982); Boatwright v. State, 452 So. 2d 666 (Fla. 4th DCA 1984); Redish v. State, 525 So. 2d 928 (Fla. 1st DCA 1988). We are, of course, aware that wide latitude is accorded a prosecutor during closing argument and that the control of those comments is within the discretion of the trial cour…
• Page v. State, 733 So. 2d 1079 (Fla. 4th DCA 1999)
  …denied. The jury found the appellant guilty of delivery of cocaine and he was sentenced to fifty months in prison. The trial court’s failure to sustain the objection and grant the motion to strike constitutes harmful error. In Boatwright v. State, 452 So. 2d 666 (Fla. 4th DCA 1984), while cross examining the defense’s main witness, the prosecutor, after establishing the differences between the testimony of the main defense witness and the prosecution witnesses, asked if the state’s witness had been lying. I…

Authorities Cited

• Stolzenberg v. Forte Towers S., Inc., 430 So. 2d 558 (Fla. 3d DCA 1983)