Law Updates for January 7, 2011

Thermidor, 36 FLW 5, 4th DCA, Abuse of discretion for court to allow evidence of uncharged crime of armed robbery, taxi cab and victim in main case could not identify the defendant in court - not harmless, where dissimilarities outweighed similarities and there did not appear to be anything especially unique or circumstances which would point to the defendant.

Tripoli, 36 FLW 36, 4th DCA, Collateral crimes evidence - Erred in admitting uncharged collateral acts where testimony about the def's actions of placing another child on his lap while he was tutoring the child was not probative of def's guilt or innocence of charge of lewd and lascivious conduct against the victim, beyond it's showing def had a propensity to molest children or it was his character to do so-not harmless.




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