GREER'S REFUSE SERVICES, INC., AND HAROLD F. GREER, APPELLANTS,

v.

EQUILEASE CORP., WASTE EQUIPMENT LEASING LTD., INC., AND CITY TANK CORP., APPELLEES

Citator

Cited By

• Bartelmy Harris v. State, 544 So. 2d 322 (Fla. 4th DCA 1989)
  …on the ground that he was entitled to give the information upon which he acted. The need for the evidence is slight, the likelihood of misuse great. In a similar circumstance, the first district has reached the same conclusion. In Haynes v. State, 502 So. 2d 507 (Fla. 1st DCA 1987), a police officer was permitted to testify that a confidential informant told him that a black male, approximately six feet tall and wearing a straw hat and a Hawaiian shirt, was selling drugs in the lobby of the Grand Hotel. The…
• Fluellen v. State, 703 So. 2d 511 (Fla. 1st DCA 1997)
  …on and might throw the drugs down if approached, and that the appellant matched the description given by the informant. Admission of this testimony therefore constituted error. See, e.g., Wilding v. State, 674 So. 2d 114 (Fla.1996); Haynes v. State, 502 So. 2d 507 (Fla. 1st DCA 1987); Postell v. State, 398 So. 2d 851 (Fla. 3d DCA 1981). The trial court also erred in permitting one of the arresting officers, Officer Paul, to testify that the quantity of cocaine possessed by the appellant indicated that the ap…
• Young v. State, 598 So. 2d 163 (Fla. 3d DCA 1992)
  …s it constituted hearsay evidence and failed to qualify for admission under any exception to the general rule excluding hearsay evidence. State v. Baird, 572 So. 2d 904 (Fla.1990); Harris v. State, 544 So. 2d 322 (Fla.4th DCA 1989); Haynes v. State, 502 So. 2d 507 (Fla. 1st DCA 1987); § 90.801(1)(c), Fla. Stat. (1989). Moreover, it was enormously prejudicial to the defendant’s claim of self-defense below and cannot be said to be harmless. State v. DiGuilio, 491 So. 2d 1129 (Fla.1986). As there will have to…

Authorities Cited

• S. Bell Tel. & Tel. Co. v. Fasce, 348 So. 2d 1196 (Fla. 3d DCA 1977)
• Neida's Boutique, Inc. v. Gabor & Co., 348 So. 2d 1196 (Fla. 3d DCA 1977)