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JACKSON v. STATE

No. 98-2.

717 So.2d 125 (1998)

Gino JACKSON, Appellant, v. The STATE of Florida, Appellee.

District Court of Appeal of Florida, Third District.

September 9, 1998.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Bennett H. Brummer, Public Defender, and Suzanne M. Froix, Assistant Public Defender, for appellant.

Robert A. Butterworth, Attorney General, and Wendy Benner-Leon, Assistant Attorney General, for appellee.

Before SCHWARTZ, C.J., and FLETCHER and SHEVIN, JJ.

PER CURIAM.

The state correctly argued that the trial court properly excluded testimony that was totally unrelated to the instant case and would have only served to confuse the jury and defeat the ends of justice. As this court stated in Welch v. State, 342 So.2d 1070, 1071 (Fla. 3d DCA 1977), "[t]he extent to which cross-examination should be permitted to show a witness' bias, interest, motives or animus rests largely...

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