LARRY DON MCDONALD, APPELLANT,

v.

STATE OF FLORIDA, APPELLEE

Citator

Cited By

• Amerace Corp. v. Stallings, 823 So. 2d 110 (Fla. 2002)
  …RIAM. We have for review the Second District Court of Appeal’s opinion in Amerace Corp. v. Stallings, 753 So. 2d 592 (Fla. 2d DCA 2000), which expressly and directly conflicts with the First District Court of Appeal’s opinions in Rockman v. Barnes, 672 So. 2d 890 (Fla. 1st DCA 1996), and Easkold v. Rhodes, 632 So. 2d 146 (Fla. 1st DCA 1994), on the issue of whether a plaintiff in a personal injury case may recover interest from the date of the verdict through the date of the judgment. We have jurisdiction. S…
• Bocher v. Glass, 874 So. 2d 701 (Fla. 1st DCA 2004)
  …ng a confederate flag. He told the venire that the decedent had owned one but was not a racist and that he had black friends and white friends. Upon objection, the trial court instructed plaintiffs’ counsel to stop testifying. Cf. Rockman v. Barnes, 672 So. 2d 890, 891 (Fla. 1st DCA 1996) (“We definitely do not condone the injec [*703] tion of the personal opinion of plaintiffs counsel into argument before the jury.”). Finally, counsel told the jury, “I want to go back into the Florida Times Union. About ever…
• Winterberg v. Johnson, 692 So. 2d 254 (Fla. 1st DCA 1997)
  …), in the first district, any closing argument that violates rule 4-3.4 of the Rules Regulating The Florida Bar, constitutes fundamental error. He, therefore, made a conscious decision not to object. As noted in the concurrence in Rockman v. Barnes, 672 So. 2d 890, 892 (Fla. 1st DCA 1996), others have also misread our decision in this manner. We specifically instruct counsel that a closing argument that violates rule 4-3.4 of the Rules of Professional Conduct, Rules Regulating The Florida Bar, does not nece…

Authorities Cited

• Hallman v. State, 371 So. 2d 482 (Fla. 1979)
• Chrystal Adams Nixon v. State, 658 So. 2d 1180 (Fla. 2d DCA 1995)