Case Name: Manuel A. ALVAREZ, Appellant, v. The STATE of Florida, Appellee
Court: Florida District Court of Appeal
Jurisdiction: Florida
Decision Date: 1981-06-02
Citations: 403 So. 2d 1005
Docket Number: No. 78-2164
Parties: Manuel A. ALVAREZ, Appellant, v. The STATE of Florida, Appellee.
Judges: Before HUBBART, C. J. and HENDRY and NESBITT, JJ.
Reporter: Southern Reporter, Second Series
Volume: 403
Pages: 1005–1006

Head Matter:
Manuel A. ALVAREZ, Appellant, v. The STATE of Florida, Appellee.
No. 78-2164.
District Court of Appeal of Florida, Third District.
June 2, 1981.
Rehearing Denied July 8, 1981.
Bennett H. Brummer, Public Defender and Bruce A. Rosenthal, Asst. Public Defender, for appellant.
Jim Smith, Atty. Gen., and Joel D. Rosen-blatt, Asst. Atty. Gen., for appellee.
Before HUBBART, C. J. and HENDRY and NESBITT, JJ.

Opinion:
PER CURIAM.
The judgment of conviction and sentence under review is affirmed. We conclude that any error concerning the admission into evidence at trial of the defendant's statement to the police: (a) based on a failure of the state to establish an independent corpus delicti was cured by the defendant's testimony at trial which supplied the missing proof of corpus delicti, Adams v. State, 367 So.2d 635 (Fla.2d DCA), cert. denied, 376 So.2d 68 (Fla.1979); Bullard v. State, 151 So.2d 343 (Fla. 1st DCA 1963), cert. denied, 377 U.S. 992, 84 S.Ct. 1915, 12 L.Ed.2d 1044 (1964); Kozakoff v. State, 104 So.2d 59 (Fla.2d DCA 1958); Roberts v. State, 154 Fla. 36, 16 So.2d 435 (1944); see Landsdown v. United States, 348 F.2d 405 (5th Cir. 1965); and (b) based on a Fourth Amendment violation was not preserved for appellate review as that objection was not raised at any time in the trial court. Koedatich v. State, 263 So.2d 631 (Fla.3d DCA), cert. dismissed, 268 So.2d 533 (Fla.1972).
Affirmed.