CARVAJAL v. STATE

No. 84-1947.

470 So.2d 73 (1985)

Gustavo CARVAJAL, Appellant, v. The STATE of Florida, Appellee.

District Court of Appeal of Florida, Third District.

June 4, 1985.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Bennett H. Brummer, Public Defender, Gelber, Glass & Durant and N. Joseph Durant, Sp. Asst. Public Defender, for appellant.

Jim Smith, Atty. Gen., and Jean G. Howard and Michael J. Niemand, Asst. Attys. Gen., for appellee.

Before NESBITT, DANIEL S. PEARSON and FERGUSON, JJ.


PER CURIAM.

The defendant's conviction and sentence for second-degree murder is affirmed upon a holding that the single small Polaroid photograph (depicting the deceased victim's face in an early stage of decomposition), admitted into evidence over the defendant's objection, was, in our view, corroborative of the medical examiner's testimony as to the time of death, an arguably relevant issue,1 and not so inflammatory so as to make its...

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