JACKSON v. STATE

No. 81-1729.

421 So.2d 15 (1982)

Mark JACKSON, Appellant, v. The STATE of Florida, Appellee.

District Court of Appeal of Florida, Third District.

Rehearing Denied November 17, 1982.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Bennett H. Brummer, Public Defender and Robert A. Smoley and Jeff Grate, Sp. Asst. Public Defenders, for appellant.

Jim Smith, Atty. Gen. and John F. Robenalt and Penny Hershoff, Asst. Attys. Gen., for appellee.

Before HENDRY and SCHWARTZ, JJ., and WILLIAM C. OWEN, Jr. (Ret.), Associate Judge.


SCHWARTZ, Judge.

The prosecutor's personal attacks upon defense counsel during final argument — which reached their apogee (or nadir) when the jurors were asked whether they would buy a used car from him — were, as is now acknowledged by the state, utterly and grossly improper.1 Adams v. State, 192 So.2d 762 (Fla. 1966); Carter v. State...

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