Taylor v. State

The defendant’s sole point on this appeal challenges the admission of a written “pri- or consistent statement” made by his alleged co-perpetrator who testified against him at the trial. There is no merit to this claim because (a) the statement was properly admitted to rebut the argument that the accomplice’s testimony was fabricated only after he had plead guilty himself, see Moore v. State, 701 So.2d 545 (Fla.1997), cert. denied, 523 U.S. 1083, 118 S.Ct. 1536, 140 L.Ed.2d 685 (1998); (b) the defendant’s objection below was not based on the legal ground asserted on appeal, Thomas v. State,…