CHRIS TOBLER, APPELLANT,

v.

STATE OF FLORIDA, APPELLEE

Citator

Cited By

• Hahn v. State, 626 So. 2d 1056 (Fla. 4th DCA 1993)
  …stion the witness’s morals. See Dukes v. State, 356 So. 2d 873 (Fla. 4th DCA 1978) (disapproving the behavior of the state in asking a witness whether she was a prostitute, and arguing that such persons are not worthy of belief); and Brown v. State, 580 So. 2d 327 (Fla. 5th DCA 1991) (questions/comments calculated to show bad character are irrelevant). As “Kathy” was a crucial eye witness to the stabbing giving rise to the charges against Hahn, discrediting her in front of the jury was prejudicial to Hahn’s d…
• Brown v. State, 610 So. 2d 579 (Fla. 1st DCA 1992)
  …is case, the comments were purposeful and come dangerously close to appearing calculated to win the favor of the jury in a case in which the deceased victim presented an image that could generously be characterized as unsavory.1 See, Brown v. State, 580 So. 2d 327 (Fla. 5th DCA 1991). Shortly after retiring to deliberate, the jury asked to be reinstructed on manslaughter as well as second-degree murder. Defense counsel asked the trial judge to reinstruct as well on justifiable homicide, specifically noting t…

Authorities Cited

• State v. Beasley, 580 So. 2d 139 (Fla. 1991)