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MYERS v. STATE

No. 2D99-4687.

788 So.2d 1112 (2001)

Nile Almon MYERS, Appellant, v. STATE of Florida, Appellee.

District Court of Appeal of Florida, Second District.

July 6, 2001.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

James Marion Moorman, Public Defender, and Anthony C. Musto, Assistant Public Defender, Bartow, for Appellant.

Robert A. Butterworth, Attorney General, Tallahassee, and Stephen D. Ake, Assistant Attorney General, Tampa, for Appellee.

PATTERSON, Acting Chief Judge.

Nile Myers (Myers) appeals from his conviction and sentence for a lewd and lascivious act committed upon a person less than sixteen years of age. We reverse and remand for a new trial because the prosecutor improperly bolstered the credibility of the State's only witness.

On November 20, 1998, Myers and his friend, Louis Reynolds, went to a bar and then to Reynolds' apartment. According to Reynolds' trial testimony, Reynolds...

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