RAO v. STATE

No. 4D07-4879.

52 So.3d 40 (2010)

Brendan RAO, Appellant, v. STATE of Florida, Appellee.

District Court of Appeal of Florida, Fourth District.

Rehearing Denied February 15, 2011.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Carey Haughwout , Public Defender, and Emily Ross-Booker , Assistant Public Defender, West Palm Beach, for appellant.

Bill McCollum , Attorney General, Tallahassee, and Mitchell A. Egber , Assistant Attorney General, West Palm Beach, for appellee.


WARNER, J.

Brendan Rao appeals his conviction for first degree murder. He raises three issues on appeal, arguing that (1) the court erred in allowing a witness to testify that he was engaged in satanic worship in high school, where the evidence was inadmissible as showing only bad character; (2) the court erred by admitting gruesome pictures of the victim's burned body which were highly prejudicial; and (3) fundamental error occurred in closing argument when the prosecutor...

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