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360 So. 2d 1130

Cooper v. State

District Court of Appeal of Florida · decided 1978-07-18

Relies on Romano v. Palazzo · Bryan v. State · Jones v. State

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Decided 1978-07-18

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Cited by 18 later decisions — most recently June 1997

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PER CURIAM.

¶1Defendant Eugene Cooper was convicted of manslaughter, unlawful possession of a firearm while engaged in a criminal offense and carrying a concealed firearm.

¶2Defendant appeals that part of the sentencing order which required that defendant not be eligible for parole for the mandatory minimum of three years. We agree and strike and delete that portion of the sentence since manslaughter is not one of the crimes set forth in Section 775.087(2), Florida Statutes (1977), prescribing a mandatory minimum sentence upon conviction for certain offenses when a firearm is used.

¶3As to the defendant’s other points on appeal, namely, first that the trial court erred in declaring a state’s witness to be adverse, and second, that the trial court abused its discretion in permitting the co-prosecutor to testify for purposes of impeaching a state’s witness in violation of the witness sequestration rule, we affirm the decision of the trial court on the authority of Bryan v. State, 45 Fla. 8, 34 So. 243 (1903); Romano v. Palazzo, 83 Fla. 243, 91 So. 115 (1922); Jones v. State, 273 So.2d 8 (Fla. 3d DCA 1973).

¶4Affirmed in part, reversed in part.

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