Stokes v. State

WENTWORTH, Judge.

Appellant Stokes seeks review of a 1/7/88 judgment entered pursuant to a jury verdict in the circuit court for Santa Rosa County, by which she was convicted of second degree murder with a deadly weapon and sentenced to 17 years. We reverse because the court erred in denying appellant s motion to suppress statements and physical evidence, and in permitting the state to introduce evidence attacking appellant’s character when she did not testify and her character was not in issue.

The charges stemmed from the 4/26/87 stabbing and drowning of 15-year-old Amy Michelle Turner in the…