JEFFERSON v. STATE

No. 89-998.

560 So.2d 1374 (1990)

Albert JEFFERSON, Appellant, v. STATE of Florida, Appellee.

District Court of Appeal of Florida, Fifth District.

May 10, 1990.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

James B. Gibson, Public Defender, and Kenneth Witts, Asst. Public Defender, Daytona Beach, for appellant.

Robert A. Butterworth, Atty. Gen., Tallahassee, and Colin Campbell, Asst. Atty. Gen., Daytona Beach, for appellee.


HARRIS, Judge.

Albert Jefferson appeals his conviction for sale and possession of cocaine. He was caught in a sting operation in which he sold cocaine to a confidential informant in a monitored operation. He contends the judge erred when he refused to grant a mistrial after the confidential informant, in responding to the State's inquiry as to what his job as a confidential informant entailed, stated:

I am ... I have identified to me various areas where narcotics...

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