Case Name: STATE OF FLORIDA v. COHN
Court: Florida Circuit Court
Jurisdiction: Florida
Decision Date: 1988-12-01
Citations: 33 Fla. Supp. 2d 160
Docket Number: Case No. 87-4518-AC-A (County Court Case Nos. 87-82983-PH and 87-82984-PH)
Parties: STATE OF FLORIDA v COHN
Judges: Before HARRIS, JOHNSTON, JOHNSON, JJ.
Reporter: Florida Supplement Second
Volume: 33
Pages: 160–163

Head Matter:
STATE OF FLORIDA v COHN
Case No. 87-4518-AC-A (County Court Case Nos. 87-82983-PH and 87-82984-PH)
Eighteenth Judicial Circuit, Brevard County
December 1, 1988
APPEARANCES OF COUNSEL
Guy B. Windsor, Assistant State Attorney, for appellant.
Daniel S. Ciener, Law Firm of Ciener & Eisenmenger, for appellee.
Before HARRIS, JOHNSTON, JOHNSON, JJ.

Opinion:
OPINION OF THE COURT
CHARLES M. HARRIS, Circuit Judge.
The issue here is not whether the results of a field sobriety test should be admissible in evidence, it is whether the refusal to perform such test should be admitted in evidence if the defendant was not warned of that consequence of his refusal.
In Herring v State, 501 So.2d 19 (Fla. 3d DCA 1986), the Court held that the defendant's refusal to submit to a similar request was inadmissible not only because it lacked any "significant probative value" but, also, because its admission would be unfair where the police may have led the defendant to believe that he had a right to refuse.
There is nothing in this record to show that the defendant was told either that he was required to take the test or that his refusal to take the tests would be used against him in court.