# Patrick Albert Evans v. State of Florida

> Supreme Court of Florida · November 12, 2015 · 40 Fla. L. Weekly Supp. 700

URL: https://www.frixlaw.com/law-library/cases/9820121

## Case

- **Full name:** Patrick Albert EVANS, Appellant, v. STATE of Florida, Appellee
- **Court:** Supreme Court of Florida
- **Decided:** November 12, 2015
- **Citations:** 40 Fla. L. Weekly Supp. 700; 177 So. 3d 1219; 2015 Fla. LEXIS 2538; 2015 WL 7008526
- **Precedential status:** Published
- **Opinion:** Dissent by Canady
- **Judges:** Lewis, Labarga, Pariente, Quince, Perry, Polston, Canady
- **Cited by:** 33 later opinions in the Frix Law Library

## Citator (automated)

- **Red flag:** Overruled on other grounds by Rico Johnson v. State of Florida, 252 So. 3d 1114 (2018).
- Negative treatments: 1
- Distinguished by: 0
- Full citator and citing cases: https://www.frixlaw.com/law-library/cases/9820121

## How later opinions describe it (automated extraction)

- finding use of questions that elicit witness’s position as police officer when witness is identifying defendant’s voice or image may be reversible error even when identification itself is permissible
- reversing conviction for cumulative error, taking into account objected-to and unobjected-to errors, and describing standard as to whether combined effect of errors undermined fairness of trial such that state could not prove that there was "no reasonable possibility that the …
- explaining that a preserved challenge to the prosecutor’s improper closing arguments is reviewed for harmless error

## Opinion text

CANADY, J.,
dissenting.
I agree with Justice Lewis’s dissent with one exception. On the issue regarding the prosecutor’s questions to Evans about the hiring of a private investigator, I would conclude that any error was harmless beyond a reasonable doubt.

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