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Williams v. State

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JAMES WILLIAMS, Appellant, v. STATE OF FLORIDA, Appellee.No. 4D06-4756   District Court of Appeal of Florida, Fourth District.   May 14, 2008.           Appeal from the Circuit Court for the Seventeenth Judicial Circuit, Broward County, Paul Backman, Judge, L.T. Case No. 05-16509CF10B.         Carey Haughwout, Public Defender, and Paul Petillo, Assistant Public Defender, West Palm Beach, for appellant.         Bill McCollum, Attorney General, Tallahassee, and Myra J. Fried, Assistant Attorney General, West Palm Beach, for appellee.         MAY, J.         The defendant appeals his conviction and sentence for second degree murder with a firearm. He argues, among other things, that the trial court erred in not allowing him to testify that the victim was known to carry a gun...continue to full post

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