Case ID: so2d_410/html/0197-02.html
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Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

Robert Thomas FELL, Appellant, v. STATE of Florida, Appellee.
    No. 80-378.
    District Court of Appeal of Florida, Fourth District.
    Feb. 17, 1982.
    Richard L. Jorandby, Public Defender, and Tatjana Ostapoff, Asst. Public Defender, West Palm Beach, for appellant.
    Jim Smith, Atty. Gen., Tallahassee, and Ondina Felipe, Asst. Atty. Gen., for appel-lee.
   PER CURIAM.

AFFIRMED.

LETTS, C. J., and HERSEY, J., concur.

ANSTEAD, J., specially concurs with opinion.

ANSTEAD, Judge,

specially concurring:

I concur in the majority’s affirmance, although the point raised by the appellant merits comment. The trial court, erroneously in my view, sustained an objection to a leading question posed to a witness, concerning a statement that the witness had allegedly made as to efforts by the witness to falsely connect the appellant with a weapon similar to the one involved in the offense for which appellant was convicted. However, upon review of the entire record, including the disclosure of substantial bias by this witness against the appellant I am convinced that the trial court’s error was harmless.