Adams v. State
| Decision Date | 12 March 1985 |
| Docket Number | No. 84-683,84-683 |
| Citation | 465 So.2d 564,10 Fla. L. Weekly 688 |
| Parties | 10 Fla. L. Weekly 688 Troy ADAMS, Appellant, v. The STATE of Florida, Appellee. |
| Court | Florida District Court of Appeals |
Bennett H. Brummer, Public Defender and Howard K. Blumberg, Asst. Public Defender, for appellant.
Jim Smith, Atty. Gen., and Randi Klayman Lazarus, Asst. Atty. Gen., for appellee.
Before SCHWARTZ, C.J., and BASKIN and DANIEL S. PEARSON, JJ.
Adams was convicted of strong arm robbery. At the trial, the investigating officer was prepared to testify that, when arrested, the defendant made the following statement "I know you guys have been looking for me, but when that happened, I was in Broward Sheriff's Department reference a strong armed robbery."
While the prosecutor offered to delete the "Broward Sheriff's Department-robbery" portion of the admission and replace it with "somewhere else," the Assistant Public Defender, Mr. Frost, declined to do so, apparently for the express purpose of attempting to secure a reversal on appeal. Accordingly, the statement was related to the jury just as Adams had given it. Notwithstanding that counsel also declined a curative instruction, the trial judge, as he was duty-bound to do, Coleman v. State, 420 So.2d 354 (Fla. 5th DCA 1982), commendably gave one anyway. 1
The sole point on appeal complains about the curative instruction, contending (a) that it was ineffective to cure the harm created by the statement and (b) that it overemphasized the adverse portion of the statement itself and was otherwise improper. We summarily reject these arguments which are unworthy even of being presented to us. Since the entire matter would have been obviated if the defense had agreed to delete the offending phrase, there can be no more classic example of the doctrine that one is precluded from claiming error which he has explicitly invited. 2 3 Fla.Jur.2d Appellate Review § 294 (1978); see State v. Belien, 379 So.2d 446 (Fla. 3d DCA 1980).
Affirmed.
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