ROGER DAVID MASSE, APPELLANT,

v.

THE STATE OF FLORIDA, APPELLEE

Citator

Cited By (18 total)

• State v. Casper, 417 So. 2d 263 (Fla. 1st DCA 1982)
  …crime. Story v. State, 355 So. 2d 1213 (Fla. 4th DCA 1978). Moreover, evidence of pri- or unlawful acts, similar to the one with which the defendant is charged, is ordinarily admissible to rebut a defense of entrapment. See, e.g., Drayton v. State, 292 So. 2d 395 (Fla. 3rd DCA 1974), cert. denied 300 So. 2d 900 (Fla.1974); Marion v. State, 287 So. 2d 419 (Fla. 4th DCA 1974), cert. denied, 294 So. 2d 91 (Fla.1974). Upon this record, we are unable to find any evidence which would tend to show predisposition so…
• Beasley v. State, 305 So. 2d 285 (Fla. 3d DCA 1974)
  …e case at issue, but which does manage to impress upon the minds of the jurors that the defendant has a propensity to commit crimes. E. g., Davis v. State, Fla.App.1973, 276 So. 2d 846, aff’d, Fla.1974, 290 So. 2d 30; Drayton v. State, Fla.App.1974, 292 So. 2d 395; Marion v. State, Fla.App.1974, 287 So. 2d 419; Lawson v. State, Fla.App.1974, 304 So. 2d 522 (1974). It is also necessary for us to comment upon the appellant’s second point on appeal. Appellant contends that the state never proved either that he…
• Lebowitz v. State, 313 So. 2d 473 (Fla. 3d DCA 1975)
  …of which involved his relationship with the witness Foley. Appellant contends that the prosecutor was overzealous; acted in violation of the so-called Williams rule [See, Williams v. State, Fla.1959, 110 So. 2d 654; Drayton v. State, Fla.App.1974, 292 So. 2d 395]; and therefore prejudiced his right to a fair and impartial trial. The Williams Rule, as this court stated in Drayton is an evidentiary rule which requires that where the state introduces evidence of other crimes, they must be relevant to a matter…

Authorities Cited

• Stunson v. State, 228 So. 2d 294 (Fla. 3d DCA 1969)
• Diamante Urga v. State, 155 So. 2d 719 (Fla. 2d DCA 1963)
• Steinc v. State, 275 So. 2d 34 (Fla. 2d DCA 1973)