Danger Of Unfair Prejudice

18 Florida cases classified under this topic · sorted by citation count · browse and sort

• Special v. W. Boca Med. Ctr.
  160 So. 3d 1251· Fla.· 2014-11-13 ·cited 194×
  The Florida Supreme Court clarified the test for harmless error in civil appeals, holding that the beneficiary of an error must prove there is no reasonable possibility the error contributed to the verdict. Applying this test, the Court reversed a medical malpractice judgment and
• Dean v. State
  690 So. 2d 720· Fla. 4th DCA· 1997-04-02 ·cited 56×
  Michael Dean was convicted of cocaine trafficking after police found drugs in his luggage during a consensual search at a train station. The Fourth District Court of Appeal reversed the conviction, holding that the trial court improperly admitted detectives' testimony about gener
• Grenada Steel Indus., Inc. v. Ala. Oxygen Co., Inc.
  695 F.2d 883· 5th Cir.· 1983-01-17 ·cited 56×
  The court held that Federal Rule of Evidence 407 applies to strict liability cases and that evidence of post-accident design changes is inadmissible to prove defectiveness unless the feasibility of alternative designs is controverted.
• Jackson v. State
  107 So. 3d 328· Fla.· 2012-11-15 ·cited 54×
  The Florida Supreme Court reversed Michael Jackson's conviction for first-degree murder and death sentence because the trial court abused its discretion in admitting a 37-minute videotaped custodial interrogation in which investigating officers repeatedly expressed their personal
• State v. Horwitz
  191 So. 3d 429· Fla.· 2016-05-05 ·cited 35×
  The Florida Supreme Court held that the State is precluded from using a defendant's pre-arrest, pre-Miranda silence as substantive evidence of guilt under the Florida Constitution's privilege against self-incrimination and Florida evidentiary law. The court affirmed that this pro
• McCONKEY v. United States
  444 F.2d 788· 8th Cir.· 1971-06-23 ·cited 20×
  The court held that evidence of similar wrongful acts, both prior and subsequent to the charged offenses, is admissible in fraud cases, and that the adoption of a rule requiring advance notice of such evidence is a matter for federal rulemakers, not individual circuits.
• United States v. Hernandez
  646 F.2d 970· 5th Cir.· 1981-06-01 ·cited 16×
  The dissenting judge believes the suppressed evidence was improperly admitted because the prosecutor's cross-examination exceeded its permissible scope, forcing the defendant to testify about unrelated matters.
• Gonnie Griner v. State
  662 So. 2d 758· Fla. 4th DCA· 1995-11-15 ·cited 8×
  The court held that evidence of a prior, separate criminal incident was inadmissible in the trial for a subsequent incident, as the crimes were not sufficiently distinctive or inextricably intertwined.
• Cowan v. State
  3 So. 3d 446· Fla. 4th DCA· 2009-03-11 ·cited 5×
  Cowan was convicted of burglary after trial court admitted video recording of him silent in a police car while his companion allegedly made incriminating statements, and allowed prosecution to cross-examine him about his failure to respond and argue his silence as evidence of gui
• State v. Katracy Dawson
  766 So. 2d 1109· Fla. 3d DCA· 2000-08-16 ·cited 4×
  The State of Florida sought certiorari to overturn trial court orders excluding Williams Rule evidence (evidence of other crimes) in two consolidated criminal cases against Katracy Dawson. The appellate court denied the State's petition, finding the trial court properly excluded
• Alain Cupas v. State
  57 So. 3d 228· Fla. 4th DCA· 2011-02-23 ·cited 3×
• State v. Gerry
  855 So. 2d 157· Fla. 5th DCA· 2003-08-22 ·cited 3×
  The State of Florida sought certiorari review of a trial court order excluding the testimony of a nurse practitioner who conducted sexual abuse examinations of three child victims in a case charging Raymond Gerry with multiple sexual offenses. The Florida appellate court granted
• McINTOSH v. Althouse
  472 So. 2d 1257· Fla. 4th DCA· 1985-07-03 ·cited 2×
  The court should relinquish jurisdiction to obtain an adequate record to determine if the trial court acted reasonably in its child support decision.
• Birren v. Royal Caribbean Cruises Ltd.
  S.D. Fla.· 2022-04-01
  The court held that demonstrative video animations are admissible as demonstrative aids if substantially similar to the event and helpful to the jury, and that the expert's qualifications and methodology were sufficient.
• Taylor v. State
  Fla. 5th DCA· 2018-09-24
  The trial court abused its discretion in admitting evidence of Taylor's prior sexual battery on the victim's sister because the collateral crime was substantially more severe than the charged offense, the specific similarities were inadequately established at trial, and the preju
• Harmon-Horton v. State
  91 So. 3d 931· Fla. 1st DCA· 2012-07-09
  The trial court did not abuse its discretion in denying a motion for mistrial where the arresting officer made bare references to HGN testing without details and the prosecutor later injected facts not in evidence about the test, because jury instructions to disregard closing arg
• Sutherland v. State
  944 So. 2d 1199· Fla. 4th DCA· 2006-12-20
  The court held that the law of the case did not preclude the introduction of similar acts evidence, as the evidence in the current trial did not become a central feature as it had in the prior trial.
• United States v. Evans
  469 F. Supp. 2d 1112· M.D. Fla.· 2006-08-14
  The court denied the defendant's motion in limine to admit polygraph test results, finding them inadmissible under Daubert and Rule 403.