Case Name: Russel Jay HOFFMAN, Appellant, v. STATE of Florida, Appellee
Court: Florida District Court of Appeal
Jurisdiction: Florida
Decision Date: 2009-09-04
Citations: 18 So. 3d 659
Docket Number: No. 5D08-2896
Parties: Russel Jay HOFFMAN, Appellant, v. STATE of Florida, Appellee.
Judges: PALMER, ORFINGER and JACOBUS, JJ., concur.
Reporter: Southern Reporter, Third Series
Volume: 18
Pages: 659–660

Head Matter:
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.

Opinion:
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.