BARRIENTOS v. STATE

No. 4D01-2352.

825 So.2d 1065 (2002)

Eliezer BARRIENTOS, Appellant, v. STATE of Florida, Appellee.

District Court of Appeal of Florida, Fourth District.

September 18, 2002.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Carey Haughwout, Public Defender, and Jennifer Brooks, Assistant Public Defender, West Palm Beach, for Appellant.

Robert A. Butterworth, Attorney General, Tallahassee, and Claudine M. LaFrance, Assistant Attorney General, West Palm Beach, for Appellee.


WARNER, J.

Appellant challenges his conviction and sentence for possession of a firearm by a convicted felon on the ground that the court erred in admitting evidence of appellant's flight from police officers as suggesting a collateral crime. We conclude that the trial court did not err in admitting the evidence.

The police were completing the execution of a search warrant at appellant's house when they noticed appellant arrive in a car. Upon seeing the police...

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