KENNETH ROOSEVELT WILLIAMS

v.

STATE

Citator

Cited By (14 total)

• Waterhouse v. State, 429 So. 2d 301 (Fla. 1983)
  …85, 106 So. 479, 488 (1925). The admission 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…
• State v. Wright, 265 So. 2d 361 (Fla. 1972)
  …issue at 250 So. 2d 340, the District Court erroneously treated Coppolino v. State, 223 So. 2d 68 (2nd D.C.A.Fla.1969) as if it were a de-cisión of this Court. Our action in that case was limited to dismissing Coppolino’s appeal without opinion; see 234 So. 2d 120 (Fla.1969).…
• Brown v. State, 426 So. 2d 76 (Fla. 1st DCA 1983)
  …of a lie detector test, rather than its results, should have been admitted. Id. at 340. The only other Florida case we have found which specifically refers to the Frye rule is Coppolino v. State, 223 So. 2d 68 (Fla. 2d DCA 1968), appeal dismissed, 234 So. 2d 120 (Fla.1969), cert. denied, 399 U.S. 927, 90 S.Ct. 2242, 26 L.Ed.2d 794 (1970). The facts there reveal that Coppolino murdered his wife by a lethal injection of succinylcholine chloride. An expert witness for the state was the person who testified as…

Authorities Cited

• Williams v. State, 226 So. 2d 348 (Fla. 1st DCA 1969)