Green v. State

In February, 1997, the appellant, Christopher Green, was released from prison after serving time for attempted burglary of a dwelling. He had been incarcerated in 1994. Prior to his incarceration there had been a number of nighttime burglaries in the Ponte Vedra area of St. Johns Coun*1234ty. Detectives there were aware that these burglaries were the work of a black man fitting Green’s description whose mo-dus operandi was to always leave $2.00 or $8.00 in the wallets of the victims. These burglaries ceased when Green was incarcerated and resumed immediately after his release from prison in 1997.…