PETERSON v. STATE

No. 90-00023.

578 So.2d 25 (1991)

Henry Lewis PETERSON, Appellant, v. STATE of Florida, Appellee.

District Court of Appeal of Florida, Second District.

April 10, 1991.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

James Marion Moorman, Public Defender, and Deborah A. Goins, Asst. Public Defender, Bartow, for appellant.

Robert A. Butterworth, Atty. Gen., Tallahassee, and Stephen A. Baker, Asst. Atty. Gen., Tampa, for appellee.


SCHEB, Acting Chief Judge.

The defendant, Henry Lewis Peterson, was found guilty by a jury of possession of cocaine with intent to sell or deliver, section 893.13, Florida Statutes (1987). He raises three points on appeal. We find merit in only one of his arguments, yet it mandates that he receive a new trial.

At issue is the arresting officers' repeated trial characterizations of the area where Peterson was arrested as a "high drug trafficking area." Indeed...

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