BIBBS v. STATE

No. 2D00-2707.

801 So.2d 235 (2001)

Dameian DeVaughan BIBBS, Appellant, v. STATE of Florida, Appellee.

District Court of Appeal of Florida, Second District.

December 7, 2001.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

James Marion Moorman, Public Defender, and Raymond Dix, Assistant Public Defender, Bartow, for Appellant.

Robert A. Butterworth, Attorney General, Tallahassee, and Erica M. Raffel, Assistant Attorney General, Tampa, for Appellee.


BLUE, Chief Judge.

Dameian DeVaughan Bibbs raises several issues in this appeal following his convictions for burglary of a structure, grand theft, and criminal mischief. We agree that the trial court erred by refusing to allow Bibbs to testify regarding his prior convictions. Accordingly, we reverse.

The trial court refused to allow Bibbs to testify that his prior convictions resulted from pleas. This was error. "Questions concerning prior pleas are proper...

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