VARNADORE v. STATE

No. 92-1714.

626 So.2d 1386 (1993)

Emmanuel VARNADORE, Appellant, v. STATE of Florida, Appellee.

District Court of Appeal of Florida, Fifth District.

Rehearing Denied November 30, 1993.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

James B. Gibson, Public Defender, and M.A. Lucas, Asst. Public Defender, Daytona Beach, for appellant.

Robert A. Butterworth, Atty. Gen., Tallahassee, and Carmen F. Corrente, Asst. Atty. Gen., Daytona Beach, for appellee.


COBB, Judge.

In this case the issue is whether the trial court's refusal to give the defendant's requested special limiting instruction at the time the state elicited admissions of prior felony convictions constituted harmful error.

At the end of the state's cross-examination, the defendant admitted three prior felony convictions. Defense counsel thereupon requested an immediate instruction to the jury to the effect that evidence of prior convictions was to...

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