Case Name: Fred CURTIS, Appellant, v. The STATE of Florida, Appellee
Court: Florida District Court of Appeal
Jurisdiction: Florida
Decision Date: 2000-09-27
Citations: 767 So. 2d 627
Docket Number: No. 3D99-1827
Parties: Fred CURTIS, Appellant, v. The STATE of Florida, Appellee.
Judges: Before GERSTEN, and RAMIREZ, JJ., and NESBITT, Senior Judge.
Reporter: Southern Reporter, Second Series
Volume: 767
Pages: 627–628

Head Matter:
Fred CURTIS, Appellant, v. The STATE of Florida, Appellee.
No. 3D99-1827.
District Court of Appeal of Florida, Third District.
Sept. 27, 2000.
Bennett H. Brummer, Public Defender, and Bruce A. Rosenthal, Assistant Public Defender, for appellant.
Robert A. Butterworth, Attorney General, and Regine Monestime, Assistant Attorney General, for appellee.
Before GERSTEN, and RAMIREZ, JJ., and NESBITT, Senior Judge.

Opinion:
PER CURIAM.
Fred Curtis appeals his conviction for numerous counts of child sexual abuse-related crimes. He contends that his convictions should be reversed and he should be granted a new trial because the trial court erroneously denied his challenge for cause to one of the prospective jurors for his trial and subsequently denied his request for two additional peremptory challenges to remove other "objectionable" jurors from the panel. Our review of the record shows, however, that the trial judge did, in fact, give Curtis an additional peremptory challenge, for a total of eleven peremptory challenges. We affirm because the award of this additional peremptory challenge cured the admittedly erroneous denial of the challenge for cause of the objectionable juror. See Watson v. State, 651 So.2d 1159, 1162 (Fla.1994).
Affirmed.