CADE v. STATE

No. 97-2749

726 So.2d 859 (1999)

Jessie Jermaine CADE, Appellant, v. STATE of Florida, Appellee.

District Court of Appeal of Florida, Fifth District.

February 26, 1999.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

James B. Gibson, Public Defender, and M.A. Lucas, Assistant Public Defender, Daytona Beach, for Appellant.

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


HARRIS, J.

Cade was convicted of kidnaping, sexual battery with threatened force, burglary of a conveyance, aggravated battery with a deadly weapon, and grand theft. The DNA evidence, unchallenged on appeal, strongly supports the jury decision. We affirm.

We are concerned, however, with the judge's conduct in interposing himself into the trial to question the state's expert witnesses. We suggest he read Judge Farmer's excellent discussion of this problem in...

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