OPIE

v.

MEACHAM, WARDEN

Citator

Cited By (67 total)

• Jent v. State, 408 So. 2d 1024 (Fla. 1981)
  …al rule, the problem presented to a trial court is whether scientific tests are so unreliable and scientifically unacceptable that admission of those test results constitutes error. Coppolino v. State, 223 So. 2d 68 (Fla. 2d DCA 1968), cert. denied, 399 U.S. 927, 90 S.Ct. 2242, 26 L.Ed.2d 794 (1970). This Court has recognized that testimony regarding hair analysis can be admitted into evidence in a criminal trial. Peek v. State, 395 So. 2d 492 (Fla.1980). A trial court has wide discretion concerning the adm…
• Booker v. State, 397 So. 2d 910 (Fla. 1981)
  …nless an abuse of discretion is shown. Rodriguez v. State, 327 So. 2d 903 (Fla. 3d DCA), cert. denied, 336 So. 2d 1184 (Fla.1976); Coppolino v. State, 223 So. 2d 68 (Fla. 2d DCA 1968), appeal dismissed, 234 [*915] So. 2d 120 (Fla.1969), cert. denied 399 U.S. 927, 90 S.Ct. 2242, 26 L.Ed.2d 794 (1970). The defendant has failed to show an abuse of discretion by the trial judge in admitting the card into evidence. The defendant contends that a reasonable hypothesis of innocence exists on the question of whethe…
• Waterhouse v. State, 429 So. 2d 301 (Fla. 1983)
  …n of irrelevant evidence tending to show commission of a dissimilar or much less serious crime, on the other hand, may be harmless error. See Coppolino v. State, 223 So. 2d 68 (Fla. 2d DCA), appeal dismissed, 234 So. 2d 120 (Fla.1969), cert. denied, 399 U.S. 927, 90 S.Ct. 2242, 26 L.Ed.2d 794 (1970). Appellant has failed to show how the testimony about the marijuana could have improperly prejudiced the jury against him. We therefore find the error to have been harmless. See State v. Wadsworth, 210 So. 2d…