Case Name: STATE OF FLORIDA v. CHERRY
Court: Florida Circuit Court
Jurisdiction: Florida
Decision Date: 1989-05-19
Citations: 35 Fla. Supp. 2d 77
Docket Number: Case No. 88-13169
Parties: STATE OF FLORIDA v CHERRY
Judges: 
Reporter: Florida Supplement Second
Volume: 35
Pages: 77–78

Head Matter:
STATE OF FLORIDA v CHERRY
Case No. 88-13169
Thirteenth Judicial Circuit, Hillsborough County
May 19, 1989
APPEARANCES OF COUNSEL
Brent Rose, Assistant State Attorney and James Barton, Assistant State Attorney, for appellant.
Victor Pellegrino, for appellee.

Opinion:
OPINION OF THE COURT
SUSAN C. BUCKLEW, Circuit Judge.
The State appeals from the Trial Court's order granting a motion to suppress a videotape, containing no sound. The trial court is hereby affirmed.
The Appellant/State argues that the videotape of the Defendant/ Appellee's performance of physical tests at Central Breath Testing should not have been excluded by the trial judge simply because the videotape had no sound and that the exclusion of the videotape by the trial judge constituted an abuse of discretion. The standard by which a discretionary decision must be reviewed is whether that decision was an abuse of discretion. The judge presiding over the trial is in the best position to resolve discretionary issues and it is improper to overturn a discretionary decision simply because the reviewing court might resolve the issue differently.
The trial court reviewed the tape, decided the probative value of the tape was outweighed by danger of unfair prejudice and excluded the tape. This court can find no abuse of discretion. The trial court is affirmed and the case remanded for further proceedings by the trial court.
DONE and ORDERED in Hillsborough County, Florida, this 19 th day of May, 1989.