LADD v. STATE

No. 87-02945.

564 So.2d 587 (1990)

Stacey Ellen LADD, Appellant, v. STATE of Florida, Appellee.

District Court of Appeal of Florida, Second District.

July 25, 1990.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

James Marion Moorman, Public Defender, and Jennifer Y. Fogle, Asst. Public Defender, Bartow, for appellant.

Robert A. Butterworth, Atty. Gen., Tallahassee, and Erica M. Raffel, Asst. Atty. Gen., Tampa, for appellee.


LEHAN, Judge.

We affirm defendant's conviction for second-degree murder. Contrary to defendant's contention, we do not conclude that the trial court erred in excluding until defendant testified expert testimony that defendant suffered from the battered child syndrome.

Defendant's argument is that the trial court thereby improperly required defendant to testify. We disagree. The trial court did not err in determining that no other testimony provided a predicate...

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