Antarus Manche Jackson v. State of Florida

After a non-jury trial, Antarus Jackson was convicted of driving a motor vehicle on a state highway even though his driver’s license had been revoked pursuant to the habitual traffic offender statute. See § 322.34(5), Fla. Stat. (2014). On appeal he argues that the trial court erred in overruling defense counsel’s objection on relevance grounds to testimony about his driving the same vehicle on another occasion after the date of the charged offense. This relevancy objection to collateral-crime evidence preserved the issue for review. Absent circumstances not present here, such evidence is…