Legal Opinion

Gillian v. State

District Court of Appeal of Florida

Decided August 18, 1977No. FF-59PublishedCited by 1 opinion

1Opinion of the Court

BOYER, Judge.

Appellant, charged with burglary of a dwelling and convicted and sentenced accordingly, now appeals urging that fundamental error occurred when the prosecutor questioned him in the presence of the jury, without objection, concerning defendant’s failure to give any explanatory statement to the officer at the time of his arrest, citing Bennett v. State, 316 So.2d 41 (Fla.1975) and Shannon v. State, 335 So.2d 5 (Fla.1976). We have carefully considered those cases as did our brethren of the Second District, in a factually similar case, Clark v. State, 336 So.2d 468 (Fla. 2nd DCA…

2Cases cited3 opinions

  1. Bennett v. StateSupreme Court of Florida · 1975
  2. Shannon v. StateSupreme Court of Florida · 1976
  3. Clark v. StateDistrict Court of Appeal of Florida · 1976

3Cited by1 opinion

  1. Armstrong v. StateDistrict Court of Appeal of Florida · 1977

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