PARKER v. STATE

No. 2D12-3813.

124 So.3d 1023 (2013)

Jerome L. PARKER, Appellant, v. STATE of Florida, Appellee.

District Court of Appeal of Florida, Second District.

November 6, 2013.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Ita M. Neymotin , Regional Counsel, Second District, and Joseph Thye Sexton , Assistant Regional Counsel, Office of Criminal Conflict and Civil Regional Counsel, Bartow, for Appellant.

Pamela Jo Bondi , Attorney General, Tallahassee, and Susan M. Shanahan , Assistant Attorney General, Tampa, for Appellee.


CRENSHAW, Judge.

Jerome Parker appeals his judgment and sentence to sixty months in prison, followed by fifteen years of probation, after a jury found him guilty of robbery with a firearm. Because the trial court abused its discretion by denying Mr. Parker's motions for a mistrial following inappropriate comments made by the State on Mr. Parker's postarrest silence, we reverse.

Factual Background

On October 1, 2011, Juan Galvan was robbed...

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