Opinion
No. 1D10–5036.
2011-12-30
Christopher Melvin BODY, Appellant, v. STATE of Florida, Appellee.
An appeal from the Circuit Court for Escambia County. Paul A. Rasmussen, Judge.Nancy A. Daniels, Public Defender, and Edgar Lee Elzie, Jr., Assistant Public Defender, Tallahassee, and Ralph W. Parnell, Assistant Public Defender, Pensacola, for Appellant. Pamela Jo Bondi, Attorney General, and Donna A. Gerace, Assistant Attorney General, Tallahassee, for Appellee.
An appeal from the Circuit Court for Escambia County. Paul A. Rasmussen, Judge.Nancy A. Daniels, Public Defender, and Edgar Lee Elzie, Jr., Assistant Public Defender, Tallahassee, and Ralph W. Parnell, Assistant Public Defender, Pensacola, for Appellant. Pamela Jo Bondi, Attorney General, and Donna A. Gerace, Assistant Attorney General, Tallahassee, for Appellee.
PER CURIAM.
Reversed and remanded. See Lawhorne v. State, 500 So.2d 519, 521–23 (Fla.1986) (holding that questioning of defendant about whether his six prior convictions went to trial was proper rehabilitation); Watkins v. State, 933 So.2d 1294, 1295–96 (Fla. 4th DCA 2006) (refusal to allow defendant to testify that his two, prior felony convictions were the product of guilty pleas not harmless error where defendant's credibility at issue); Bowles v. State, 849 So.2d 465, 466 (Fla. 4th DCA 2003) (refusal to allow defendant to testify that his prior felony convictions had been resolved by guilty pleas not harmless error, as his “credibility was plainly at issue”).