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553 So. 2d 382

553 So.2d 382

14 Fla.L.Weekly 2823

Fipps v. State

District Court of Appeal of Florida

Decided December 11, 1989

District Court of Appeal of Florida · decided 1989-12-11

Cited by 1 later decisions — most recently June 1992

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Decided 1989-12-11

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ZEHMER, Judge specially

¶1concurring.

¶2I conclude that it was error to permit the prosecutor to ask, over appropriate objection, whether the defendant carried his Bible with him when he committed the burglary. This was nothing more than a snide comment that demeaned the dignity of a court proceeding, and served neither to prove an element of the charged offense nor to impeach the witness’s credibility. If the prosecutor had any question about the propriety of the defendant’s carrying the Bible to the witness stand, the proper procedure was to make a timely objection and get a ruling from the court.

¶3I agree, however, that this error was harmless under the circumstances, and I fully concur in the affirmance on all other issues.

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