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Russel Jay HOFFMAN, Appellant, v. STATE of Florida, Appellee.
    No. 5D08-2896.
    District Court of Appeal of Florida, Fifth District.
    Sept. 4, 2009.
    Rehearing Denied Oct. 9, 2009.
    James S. Purdy, Public Defender, and Aliene S. Rogers, Assistant Public Defender, Daytona Beach, for Appellant.
    Bill McCollum, Attorney General, Tallahassee, and Douglas T. Squire, Assistant Attorney General, Daytona Beach, for Ap-pellee.
   PER CURIAM.

AFFIRMED. See Gonzalez v. State, 948 So.2d 877, 878 (Fla. 4th DCA 2007) (holding that non-testifying defendant who brings out his or her own exculpatory statements through another witness runs risk of having statements impeached by felony convictions); see also 5 Jack B. Weinstein & Margaret A. Berger, Wein-stein’s Federal Evidence § 806.04(2)(b) (Joseph M. McLaughlin ed., 2d ed. 2002) (“A defendant who chooses not to testify but who succeeds in getting his ... own exculpatory statements into evidence runs the risk of having those statements impeached by felony convictions

PALMER, ORFINGER and JACOBUS, JJ., concur.