Legal Opinion

Williams v. State

District Court of Appeal of Florida

Decided September 4, 2002No. 4D01-1305PublishedCited by 1 opinion

1Per curiam

Affirmed. Although the prosecutor made an unobjected to misstatement of law in closing argument, we conclude that the error was harmless beyond a reasonable doubt when viewed in the context of the entire closing argument; the considerable number of times during argument where the prosecutor made the correct statement of law; the court’s instructions that what the lawyers say is neither evidence nor argument; and the court’s proper instructions of the law. See Almeida v. State, 748 So.2d 922, 927 (Fla.1999).

WARNER, GROSS and HAZOURI, JJ., concur.

2Cases cited1 opinion

  1. Almeida v. StateSupreme Court of Florida · 1999

3Cited by1 opinion

  1. Fisher v. StateDistrict Court of Appeal of Florida · 2002