ALVELO v. STATE

No. 5D02-3455.

866 So.2d 1240 (2004)

Barry ALVELO, Appellant, v. STATE of Florida, Appellee.

District Court of Appeal of Florida, Fifth District.

Rehearing Denied February 27, 2004.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

James B. Gibson, Public Defender, and Anne Moorman Reeves, Assistant Public Defender, Daytona Beach, for Appellant.

Charles J. Crist, Jr., Attorney General, Tallahassee, and Anthony J. Golden, Assistant Attorney General, Daytona Beach, for Appellee.


THOMPSON, J.

We affirm the convictions for attempted trafficking in heroin, possession of marijuana, and possession of drug paraphernalia.

We agree that the court should not have allowed a police officer to testify that he received a tip that Alvelo was processing and dealing in heroin from his home. The only non-hearsay relevance of this testimony was to explain why the police had focused their attention on Alvelo. In such a case "the better practice is to...

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