LEPISCOPO

v.

MACGRATH

Citator

Cited By (20 total)

• Floyd v. State, 569 So. 2d 1225 (Fla. 1990)
  …s of defendant’s car was one upon which deputy sheriff was qualified to testify under facts presented, leaving to the jury the determination of credibility and weight to be given to that testimony), cert. denied, 168 So. 2d 148 (Fla.), cert. denied, 381 U.S. 916, 85 S.Ct. 1541, 14 L.Ed.2d 436 (1965). We find the officers’ testimony within the permissible range of lay observation and ordinary police experience. Hence, the trial court did not abuse its discretion in admitting this particular testimony. Floyd…
• Johnston v. State, 497 So. 2d 863 (Fla. 1986)
  …y Officer Oster-meyer in this instance is analogous to the non-expert testimony held admissible in Jones v. State, 440 So. 2d 570 (Fla.1983), and Peacock v. State, 160 So. 2d 541 (Fla. 1st DCA), cert. denied, 168 So. 2d 148 (Fla.1964), cert. denied, 381 U.S. 916, 85 S.Ct. 1541, 14 L.Ed.2d 436 (1965). In Jones, we held that a police officer’s testimony that the mark on the “stash house” window sill was made by the recoil of a high-powered rifle was admissible. Our holding was based, in part, on the fact tha…
• In the Interest of J.H., 580 So. 2d 162 (Fla. 4th DCA 1991)
  …gent person with a limited degree of knowledge about how drug transactions occur could have reached the same conclusion as did the detective. See Peacock v. State, 160 So. 2d 541 (Fla. 1st DCA), cert. denied, 168 So. 2d 148 (Fla.1964), cert. denied, 381 U.S. 916, 85 S.Ct. 1541, 14 L.Ed.2d 436 (1965). He or she would not have to be another Sherlock Holmes to form the opinion that a drug transaction “went down” and that the seller “stashed” the “goods” in the crotch area inside her shorts. In any event, the d…