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S.N. v. STATE

No. 89-1958.

563 So.2d 202 (1990)

S.N., a Juvenile, Appellant, v. The STATE of Florida, Appellee.

District Court of Appeal of Florida, Third District.

June 26, 1990.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Bennett H. Brummer, Public Defender, and Valerie Jonas, Asst. Public Defender, for appellant.

Robert A. Butterworth, Atty. Gen., and Julie S. Thornton, Asst. Atty. Gen., for appellee.

Before COPE, GERSTEN and GODERICH, JJ.

CONFESSION OF ERROR

PER CURIAM.

The State properly concedes that the trial court erred in admitting into evidence testimony by the arresting officers regarding the respondent's post-arrest silence. This testimony was irrelevant and highly prejudicial. See United States v. Hale, 422 U.S. 171, 95 S.Ct. 2133, 45 L.Ed.2d 99 (1975) (post-arrest silence is too ambiguous to be probative of anything because it is susceptible...

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