ROSA v. STATE

No. 96-3011.

696 So.2d 1299 (1997)

Miguel Ocasio ROSA, Appellant, v. The STATE of Florida, Appellee.

District Court of Appeal of Florida, Third District.

July 16, 1997.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Bennett H. Brummer, Public Defender, and Harvey J. Sepler, Assistant Public Defender, for appellant.

Robert A. Butterworth, Attorney General, and Douglas Gurnic, Assistant, Attorney General, for appellee.

Before COPE and GREEN, JJ., and BARKDULL, Senior Judge.


COPE, Judge.

Defendant Miguel Rosa appeals his conviction for trespass and resisting arrest, claiming improper comment by the court and prosecutor during voir dire of the jury panel. We affirm.

At the start of jury selection, the court gave introductory remarks to the prospective jurors, including the following:

[W]hen you are charged with a crime in our Country, as you know, you are presumed to be innocent. We already talked about that, but you are...

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