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Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

Peter E. KOURACOS, Appellant, v. STATE of Florida, Appellee.
    No. 96-414.
    District Court of Appeal of Florida, Fifth District.
    May 16, 1997.
    Craig S. Boda, P.A., Daytona Beach, for Appellant.
    Robert A. Butterworth, Attorney General, Tallahassee, and Kellie A. Nielan, Assistant Attorney General, Daytona Beach, for Appel-lee.
   PER CURIAM.

AFFIRMED.

PETERSON, C.J., and THOMPSON, J., concur.

HARRIS, J., concurs specially, with opinion.

HARRIS,

Judge, concurring specially:

While I agree with the majority’s affir-mance in this cause, it is not because I find no error. I concur only because the evidence of his guilt of resisting an officer with violence was so overwhelming that the error committed was harmless. It was error not to permit cross-examination of the arresting officer concerning whether he intended to file a civil action against Kouracos based on his injuries sustained during the arrest because such testimony is admissible to show possible bias on the part of a witness. Nevertheless, such error is subject to the harmless error rule. See Bessman v. State, 259 So.2d 776 (Fla. 3d DCA 1972).