ROSA v. STATE

No. 81-711.

412 So.2d 891 (1982)

Pedro Juan ROSA, Appellant, v. The STATE of Florida, Appellee.

District Court of Appeal of Florida, Third District.

Rehearing Denied May 5, 1982.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Bennett H. Brummer, Public Defender and Robin H. Greene, Asst. Public Defender, for appellant.

Jim Smith, Atty. Gen., and Paul Mendelson, Asst. Atty. Gen., for appellee.

Before SCHWARTZ, NESBITT and BASKIN, JJ.


BASKIN, Judge.

We reverse defendant Rosa's conviction of second-degree murder upon our holding that the photograph of the deceased's blood-spattered body, which depicted the results of emergency procedures performed after the stabbing, including protruding surgical tubes and sutures, was irrelevant. Dyken v. State, 89 So.2d 866 (Fla. 1956); Beagles v. State, 273 So.2d 796 (Fla. 1st...

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