REID v. STATE

No. 5D00-570.

784 So.2d 605 (2001)

James REID, Appellant, v. STATE of Florida, Appellee.

District Court of Appeal of Florida, Fifth District.

May 18, 2001.


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 Mary G. Jolley, Assistant Attorney General, Daytona Beach, for Appellee.


THOMPSON, C.J.

James Reid appeals his conviction for shooting into an occupied vehicle. We reverse the conviction because the state, after having exculpatory testimony excluded from the trial, then argued to the jury that the absence of such evidence belied Reid's self-defense theory.

Reid was charged with two counts of attempted second degree murder and shooting into an occupied vehicle. The jury acquitted him of the attempted murder charges. Reid testified...

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