MARY C. MONTFORD WARREN, PETITIONER,

v.

GLENN T. WARREN, SR., RESPONDENT

Citator

Cited By (17 total)

• von Carter v. State, 468 So. 2d 276 (Fla. 1st DCA 1985)
  …insinuate that appellant has a criminal character or has engaged in violent or criminal conduct. It is axiomatic that unless a defendant places his character in issue it may not be attacked by the state. § 90.404(1)(a), Fla.Stat. In Briggs v. State, 455 So. 2d 519 (Fla. 1st DCA 1984), this court expressed its extreme displeasure with prosecutorial tactics designed to achieve convictions at the price of a fair trial. We quote from Briggs: [M]any criminal appeals have been filed legitimately complaining of mis…
• Dorris Slater Redish v. State, 525 So. 2d 928 (Fla. 1st DCA 1988)
  …flicts of the controversy under appropriate instructions.”). Lastly, we consider the prosecution’s personal attack on defense counsel by referring to his “cheap tricks” to be clearly beyond the bounds of proper closing argument. In Briggs v. State, 455 So. 2d 519, 521 (Fla. 1st DCA 1984), this court stated: Verbal attacks on the personal integrity of opposing counsel, rather than appropriate comments on the credibility of witnesses and inferences to be drawn from the evidence before the jury, are wholly inc…
• Lewis v. State, 711 So. 2d 205 (Fla. 3d DCA 1998)
  …uted an impermissible attack on defense counsel. See Riley v. State, 560 So. 2d 279, 280 (Fla. 3d DCA 1990)(a prosecutor may not ridicule a defendant or his theory of defense); Rosso v. State, 505 So. 2d 611, 612 (Fla. 3d DCA 1987); Briggs v. State, 455 So. 2d 519, 520-21 (Fla. 1st DCA 1984). See also Alvarez v. State, 574 So. 2d 1119 (Fla. 3d DCA 1991); Jackson v. State, 421 So. 2d 15 (Fla. 3d DCA 1982); Carter v. State, 356 So. 2d 67 (Fla. 1st DCA 1978). The most disquieting aspect of this impropriety was t…