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Grier v. State, No. 4D08-1425 (Fla. App. 12/23/2009) (Fla. App., 2009)

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JEWEL GRIER, Appellant, v. STATE OF FLORIDA, Appellee. No. 4D08-1425. No. 4D08-2431. District Court of Appeal of Florida, Fourth District. December 23, 2009. Consolidated appeals from the Circuit Court for the Seventeenth Judicial Circuit, Broward County; Joel T. Lazarus, Judge; L.T. Case No. 01-7886CF10A. Carey Haughwout, Public Defender, and Dea Abramschmitt, Assistant Public Defender, West Palm Beach, for appellant. Bill McCollum, Attorney General, Tallahassee, and James J. Carney, Sr. Assistant Attorney General, West Palm Beach, for appellee. LEVINE, J. The issue presented is whether the trial court erred by allowing similar fact evidence from two other collateral victims and whether it became an impermissible feature of the trial. Grier was charged by information with seventeen counts, including lewd or lascivious molestation, lewd or lascivious conduct, attempted sexual battery, felony battery, battery, and sexual battery...continue to full post

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