LEVERETT v. STATE

No. 95-3539.

696 So.2d 519 (1997)

Michael LEVERETT, Appellant, v. STATE of Florida, Appellee.

District Court of Appeal of Florida, Fourth District.

July 9, 1997.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Kayo Morgan, Fort Lauderdale, for appellant.

Robert A. Butterworth, Attorney General, Tallahassee, and Patricia Ann Ash, Assistant Attorney General, West Palm Beach, for appellee.


WARNER, Judge.

In challenging his conviction and sentence for sexual battery, the appellant contends that "Williams Rule evidence" of a prior similar act should not have been admitted as it was not strikingly similar to the charged crime. We reverse.

According to the state's evidence, the twenty-five year old victim in this case had been at a bar in the early daylight hours of Saturday, July 17, 1993. She was an admitted alcoholic, and had been using cocaine...

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