WOODS v. STATE

No. 4D03-4993.

905 So.2d 246 (2005)

Joseph WOODS, Appellant, v. STATE of Florida, Appellee.

District Court of Appeal of Florida, Fourth District.

June 22, 2005.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Carey Haughwout, Public Defender, and Tatjana Ostapoff, Assistant Public Defender, West Palm Beach, for appellant.

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


BROWN, LUCY CHERNOW, Associate Judge.

In this case we are called upon to decide whether the trial court erred in denying appellant's motion for mistrial when a police officer testified that appellant was a wanted robbery suspect, in violation of a pretrial order in limine. We find error and reverse as explained below.

Appellant, Joseph Woods ("Woods"), appeals his conviction for aggravated fleeing and eluding police officers. Woods was wanted by the Lauderhill...

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