Cannon v. State

Appellant challenges his conviction for armed robbery. Among other issues, he asserts the trial court erred in allowing similar fact evidence of a second robbery as well as allowing the second robbery to become a feature of the trial. We agree with appellant as to both assertions.

There was no unique or particularly unusual characteristic of either robbery so as to render the offenses similar in the context of collateral crimes evidence; thus, the admission of the collateral crime evidence constituted error. Carbonell v. State, 47 So.3d 944 (Fla. 3d DCA 2010).

In addition, evidence involving a…