WRIGHT v. STATE

No. 86-408.

503 So.2d 981 (1987)

Lazarus WRIGHT, Appellant, v. STATE of Florida, Appellee.

District Court of Appeal of Florida, Fifth District.

March 12, 1987.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

James B. Gibson, Public Defender, and Nancye R. Crouch, Asst. Public Defender, Daytona Beach, for appellant.

Robert A. Butterworth, Atty. Gen., Tallahassee, and Joseph N. D'Achille, Jr., Asst. Atty. Gen., Daytona Beach, for appellee.


DAUKSCH, Judge.

This is an appeal from convictions in a criminal case. Appellant alleges error in the trial which he says denied him "his fundamental right to a fair and impartial trial by a fairly and impartially selected jury."

The procedure of which the appellant complains is the requirement that he make his opening statement at trial to the entire jury venire rather than to those individuals selected and sworn to sit as jurors in the case. He says it is...

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