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BROWN v. STATE

No. 5D98-3042.

754 So.2d 188 (2000)

Kevin Charles BROWN, Appellant, v. STATE of Florida, Appellee.

District Court of Appeal of Florida, Fifth District.

April 7, 2000.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Tad Kokoszka of Kokoszka & Gutin, Cocoa, and Laura McCarthy and Harley Ives Gutin of Gutin & McCarthy, Cocoa, for Appellant.

Robert A. Butterworth, Attorney General, Tallahassee, and Kellie A. Nielan and Belle B. Schumann, Assistant Attorneys General, Daytona Beach, for Appellee.

W. SHARP, J.

Brown appeals from his conviction and sentence for trafficking in cocaine1 following a jury trial. He argues that overzealous remarks by the prosecutor in closing argument, most of which were objected to by defense counsel, deprived him of a fair trial. Taking into account other problems with the trial and the fact that Brown's conviction turned almost exclusively on the testimony of one witness, we think the prosecutor's...

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