SHANNON v. STATE

No. 47611.

335 So.2d 5 (1976)

John Edward SHANNON et al., Petitioners, v. STATE of Florida, Respondent.

Supreme Court of Florida.

June 30, 1976.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Louis G. Carres, Asst. Public Defender, for petitioners.

Robert L. Shevin, Atty. Gen., and Jeanne Dawes Schwartz and Michael M. Corin, Asst. Attys. Gen., for respondent.


By the Court:

The First District Court of Appeal, in a 2-1 decision, has held that comments on petitioners' right to remain silent which were made during closing remarks to a jury by a legal intern prosecuting these cases for the state "bordered on error, but the trial court's instruction was enough to render the remarks as harmless." 320 So.2d 855, 856. That decision conflicts with our more recent decision in Bennett v. State...

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