WILLIAMS
v.
FLORIDA

U.S. | 1959-10-12
No. 103
361 U.S. 847 Supreme Court of the United States (1959) Negative Treatment
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  • Rogers v. State, 511 So. 2d 526 (Fla. 1987)
    …does the record support appellant’s contention that the collateral crime evidence became a “feature of the trial.” We thus conclude that this evidence met the standard for admission set out in Williams v. State, 110 So. 2d 654 (Fla.), cert. denied, 361 U.S. 847, 80 S.Ct. 102, 4 L.Ed.2d 86 (1959), and continuously reaffirmed by this [*532] Court. See also § 90.404(2)(a), Fla.Stat. (1985). Sixth, Rogers contends that Ket-sey Supinger’s eyewitness identification of him was tainted by a suggestive procedure u…
  • Livingston v. State, 441 So. 2d 1083 (Fla. 1983)
    …ellant to be mentally slow but competent to understand the proceedings. There was evidence of an unrelated criminal attack committed by appellant. This evidence was properly admitted under Williams v. State, 110 So. 2d 654 (Fla.1959), cert. denied, 361 U.S. 847, 80 S.Ct. 102, 4 L.Ed.2d 86 (1960). The appellant’s confession was found through proper procedures to have been voluntarily given and was therefore properly admitted into evidence. All of appellant’s other arguments on the admissibility of particul…
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  • Straight v. State, 397 So. 2d 903 (Fla. 1981)
    …arged is inadmissible if its sole purpose is to show bad character or propensity to crime.' But evidence of criminal activity not charged is admissible if relevant to an issue of material fact. Williams v. State, 110 So. 2d 654 (Fla.), cert. denied, 361 U.S. 847, 80 S.Ct. 102, 4 L.Ed.2d 86 (1959). If irrelevant, its admission is presumed harmful error because of the danger that a jury will take the bad character or propensity to crime thus demonstrated as evidence of guilt of the crime charged. When a susp…
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