STATE v. JOUZDANI

Nos. 1D10-6695, 1D11-0029.

98 So.3d 1264 (2012)

STATE of Florida, Appellee. v. ARMAN JOUZDANI, Appellant, Arman Jouzdani, Appellant, v. State of Florida, Appellee.

District Court of Appeal of Florida, First District.

October 19, 2012.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Michael Ufferman of the Michael Ufferman Law Firm, P.A., Tallahassee, for Appellant/Cross-Appellee.

Pamela Jo Bondi , Attorney General, Trisha Meggs Pate , Tallahassee Bureau Chief, Charles R. McCoy , Senior Assistant Attorney General, and Dixie Daimwood , Assistant Attorney General, Office of the Attorney General, Tallahassee, for Appellee/Cross-Appellant.


PADOVANO, J.

The defendant, Arman Jouzdani, appeals his convictions for kidnapping, extortion and grand theft. He presents five arguments in the appeal, but we need only address one of them as we find it to be dispositive. We conclude that the trial court erred in allowing the prosecutor to impeach a defense witness with evidence of prior criminal offenses. The prosecutor failed to prove that the witness had been adjudicated...

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