Case Name: Gino JACKSON, Appellant, v. The STATE of Florida, Appellee
Court: Florida District Court of Appeal
Jurisdiction: Florida
Decision Date: 1998-09-09
Citations: 717 So. 2d 125
Docket Number: No. 98-2
Parties: Gino JACKSON, Appellant, v. The STATE of Florida, Appellee.
Judges: Before SCHWARTZ, C.J., and FLETCHER and SHEVIN, JJ.
Reporter: Southern Reporter, Second Series
Volume: 717
Pages: 125–126

Head Matter:
Gino JACKSON, Appellant, v. The STATE of Florida, Appellee.
No. 98-2.
District Court of Appeal of Florida, Third District.
Sept. 9, 1998.
Bennett H. Brummer, Public Defender, and Suzanne M. Froix, Assistant Public Defender, for appellant.
Robert A. Butterworth, Attorney General, and Wendy Benner-Leon, Assistant Attorney General, for appellee.
Before SCHWARTZ, C.J., and FLETCHER and SHEVIN, JJ.

Opinion:
PER CURIAM.
The state correctly argued that the trial court properly excluded testimony that was totally unrelated to the instant case and would have only served to confuse the jury and defeat the ends of justice. As this court stated in Welch v. State, 342 So.2d 1070, 1071 (Fla. 3d DCA 1977), "[t]he extent to which cross-examination should be permitted to show a witness' bias, interest, motives or animus rests largely within the sound discretion of the trial judge and [her] rulings will not be disturbed in the absence of a showing of a clear abuse of that discretion." (Emphases added). See also Breedlove v. State, 580 So.2d 605 (Fla.1991).
Finding no abuse of discretion, we affirm.
Affirmed.