Powe v. State

NIMMONS, Judge.

Powe appeals from a drug trafficking conviction. He claims that the trial court erred in admitting, over objection, tape recordings of four telephone conversations between the defendant and one Robert Levesque, an informant who was participating with law enforcement officials in an undercover drug investigation. We affirm after considering this case en banc pursuant to Fla.R.App.P. 9.331(a) and (b).

Two of the calls were placed on October 8, 1980, by Levesque to Powe at his home in Miami. The next day, Powe telephoned Levesque and advised him that he was in Jacksonville prepared…