MORRA v. STATE

No. 98-2630.

742 So.2d 815 (1999)

William Joseph MORRA, Jr., Appellant, v. STATE of Florida, Appellee.

District Court of Appeal of Florida, Fifth District.

August 13, 1999.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

James B. Gibson, Public Defender, and Barbara C. Davis, Assistant Public Defender, Daytona Beach, for Appellant.

Robert A. Butterworth, Attorney General, Tallahassee, and David H. Foxman, Assistant Attorney General, Daytona Beach, for Appellee.


THOMPSON, J.

We affirm William Morra's convictions for two counts of sexual activity with a child while in a position of familial or custodial authority1, and one count of committing a lewd act in the presence of a child.2

Morra argues that the court should have excluded testimony that he hit the victim's mother and put the victim's head through a headboard because collateral bad acts should not be...

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