GARDNER v. STATE

No. 2D01-195.

821 So.2d 1220 (2002)

Leroy GARDNER, Appellant, v. STATE of Florida, Appellee.

District Court of Appeal of Florida, Second District.

July 26, 2002.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

James Marion Moorman, Public Defender, and Tosha Cohen, Assistant Public Defender, Bartow, for Appellant.

Robert A. Butterworth, Attorney General, Tallahassee, and Sonya Roebuck Horbelt, Assistant Attorney General, Tampa, for Appellee.


STRINGER, Judge.

Leroy Gardner challenges his convictions for sale of cocaine within 1000 feet of a place of worship and for possession of cocaine. We reverse his convictions and remand for a new trial because evidence of other crimes was improperly admitted at trial.

A State witness, Detective Thompson, testified that while working undercover he purchased cocaine from a person whom he later identified as Gardner. The prosecutor asked Detective Thompson if...

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