Case Name: Winfred AVANT, Appellant, v. The STATE of Florida, Appellee
Court: Florida District Court of Appeal
Jurisdiction: Florida
Decision Date: 1989-02-07
Citations: 538 So. 2d 99
Docket Number: No. 88-672
Parties: Winfred AVANT, Appellant, v. The STATE of Florida, Appellee.
Judges: Before SCHWARTZ, C.J., and BARKDULL and HUBBART, JJ.
Reporter: Southern Reporter, Second Series
Volume: 538
Pages: 99–100

Head Matter:
Winfred AVANT, Appellant, v. The STATE of Florida, Appellee.
No. 88-672.
District Court of Appeal of Florida, Third District.
Feb. 7, 1989.
Rehearing Denied March 2, 1989.
Bennett H. Brummer, Public Defender and Dubbin, Berkman, Garber, Bloom & Moriber, Miami, and Barry L. Garber, Sp. Asst. Public Defender, for appellant.
Robert A. Butterworth, Atty. Gen. and Susan Odzer Hugentugler, Asst. Atty. Gen., for appellee.
Before SCHWARTZ, C.J., and BARKDULL and HUBBART, JJ.

Opinion:
SCHWARTZ, Chief Judge.
Neither of the appellant's points is meritorious. The challenged portion of the prosecutor's final argument was a permissible reference to the absence of testimony to support the defendant's factual contentions, rather than an impermissible comment on his failure to testify. State v. Sheperd, 479 So.2d 106 (Fla.1985); White v. State, 377 So.2d 1149 (Fla.1979).
Secondly, because the respective crimes involve separate factual predicates and legal elements and are designed to meet different evils, there is nothing to the claim that, under Carawan v. State, 515 So.2d 161 (Fla.1987), a defendant may not be convicted of both burglary, that is, entering another's premises with the intent to commit the offense of robbery, and the robbery itself. Taylor v. State, 138 Fla. 762, 190 So. 262 (1939); Johnson v. State, 535 So.2d 651 (Fla. 3d DCA 1988), and cases cited; see Few v. State, 533 So.2d 914 (Fla. 2d DCA 1988).
AFFIRMED.
. The prosecutor stated:
Have you heard any evidence in this case, is there any evidence in this record that this guy bought a credit card from anybody? Did you hear anything from that witness stand, any word—
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MR. KASTRENAKES: None, zero, zip....
There is no explanation in this record for the use of that credit card other than Mr. Guralnick's speaking to you in opening statement, and that isn't evidence.