JOHN WILTON ROWE, JR., PETITIONER,

v.

STATE OF FLORIDA, RESPONDENT

Citator

Cited By

• In re Amendments to the Florida Rules of Criminal Procedure-Final Arguments, 957 So. 2d 1164 (Fla. 2007)
  …ations, No. SC05-1091 (Fla. oral argument held Feb. 14, 2007). The proposed amendment to rule 3.250 and proposed new rule 3.381 were severed from the other proposals in case No. SC05-1091 and referred to the Rules Committee. . See Preston v. State, 260 So. 2d 501, 505 (Fla.1972); Nicole Velasco, Taking the "Sandwich” Off of the Menu: Should Florida Depart from Over 150 Years of its Criminal Procedure and Let Prosecutors Have the Last Word?, 29 Nova L.Rev. 99, 121 n. 199 (2004); § 17-8-71, Ga.Code Ann. (West…
• Henry v. State, 586 So. 2d 1033 (Fla. 1991)
  …ate v. Jones, 204 So. 2d 515 (Fla.1967), applied the contemporaneous objection rule to prosecutorial comments. . Besides failing for not being made before the trial court, this issue has been decided adversely to Henry’s position. Preston v. State, 260 So. 2d 501 (Fla.1972). . Preservation of this issue requires an objection. E.g., Grossman v. State, 525 So. 2d 833 (Fla.1988), cert. denied, 489 U.S. 1071, 109 S.Ct. 1354, 103 L.Ed.2d 822 (1989). . In addition to the failure to preserve this issue, it has no…
• Warfield Raymond Wike, Jr. v. State, 648 So. 2d 683 (Fla. 1994)
  …added). Hall v. State, [119 Fla. 38,] 160 So. 511, 512 (Fla.1935). In a non-capital trial, the right to open and close the argument to the jury is a substantial procedural right, but never has been raised to constitutional status. Preston v. State, 260 So. 2d 501, 505 (Fla.1972). The Supreme Court of Florida has held that the right to open and close belongs to the prosecution as the party with the burden of proof. Id. at 505. This Court has not found any case authority holding that the right to close the ar…