ROBERTS v. STATE

No. 4D02-4490.

874 So.2d 1225 (2004)

Gorman ROBERTS, Jr., Appellant, v. STATE of Florida, Appellee.

District Court of Appeal of Florida, Fourth District.

Rehearing Denied July 2, 2004.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Ellis S. Rubin of the Law Offices of Ellis Rubin and Robert I. Barrar, Miami, for appellant.

Charles J. Crist, Jr., Attorney General, Tallahassee, and Jeanine M. Germanowicz, Assistant Attorney General, West Palm Beach, for appellee.


TAYLOR, J.

Gorman Roberts appeals his conviction for manslaughter in the tragic drowning death of five-year old Jordan Payne in a local canal. He contends that his postarrest videotaped statement should have been suppressed, because the Miranda1 warning he received failed to inform him that he had a right to have an attorney present during questioning. As a result, he argues, he did not...

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