Stevens v. State

FARMER, Judge.

The primary issue on this appeal is whether the trial judge erred in admitting evidence of pending criminal charges against a key defense witness. We agree with defendant that under the circumstances of this case it was error to allow this line of cross-examination and reverse.

Defendant was charged and convicted of possession of cocaine. She was driving in a neighborhood the police suspected of drug activity, when she was stopped for having an anomolous license tag. As she got out of her vehicle, an officer seized a cocaine rock from the passenger side floorboard. She was…