ELIUS POLY, APPELLANT,
v.
STATE OF FLORIDA, APPELLEE

Fla. 4th DCA | 1985-04-03
No. 83-2314
DOWNEY and HURLEY, JJ., concur., LETTS, J., concurs specially with opinion.
466 So. 2d 423 Florida District Court of Appeal, Fourth District (1985) Positive Treatment
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Opinion of the Court
PER CURIAM.

PER CURIAM.

AFFIRMED. [*424] DOWNEY and HURLEY, JJ., concur. LETTS, J., concurs specially with opinion.

Concurrence
LETTS, Judge,

LETTS, Judge,

specially concurring.

I do not think the improprieties of the prosecutor rose to the level of fundamental error here so I am in agreement with the result. Nonetheless, the prosecutor’s behavior was improper. Any kid out of law school knows that a prosecutor should not, in closing argument, tell a jury that he did not know if he “could live with himself” if the jury found the defendant not guilty.

For such a statement, he needs his professional ears boxed.


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    …TEIN, Judge, concurring spécially. I write because, in my view, the special concurrence by a panelist to the per curiam affirmance in the direct appeal became a red herring in the proceedings on this motion at the trial level. See Poly v. State, 466 So. 2d 423 (Fla. 4th DCA 1985). The issues involved in the direct appeal are not the issues in the collateral attack on the ground of ineffective assistance of counsel. The value judgments expressed in the direct appeal by that appellate panel are no more re…

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