PRIVETT v. STATE

No. 81-1440.

417 So.2d 805 (1982)

Timothy Paul PRIVETT, Appellant, v. STATE of Florida, Appellee.

District Court of Appeal of Florida, Fifth District.

August 4, 1982.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

James B. Gibson, Public Defender, and Brynn Newton, Asst. Public Defender, Daytona Beach, for appellant.

Jim Smith, Atty. Gen., Tallahassee, and Richard B. Martell, Asst. Atty. Gen., Daytona Beach, for appellee.


COBB, Judge.

The key issue presented by this appeal is the correctness of the trial court's admission into evidence of testimony by a state witness relating incriminating conversations that occurred in the presence of the defendant, but in which he did not verbally participate. This case is illustrative of a frequently misunderstood point of law. Statements made by a third party in the presence of a defendant (or civil party) are not, ipso facto, rendered admissible...

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