Straight v. State

How courts have described this case

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• holding that evidence of defendant’s flight and use of deadly force against officer one day after murder and other crimes was relevant to his consciousness of guilt and thus properly admitted
• holding that evidence of defendant’s flight and use of deadly force against officer one day after murder and other crimes was relevant to his consciousness of guilt and thus properly admitted
• holding collateral crime evidence that defendant was an escaped convict was presumptively harmful
• holding photograph of victim’s decomposed body admissible to corroborate testimony as to how death was inflicted
• stating that evidence of other criminal activity \is presumed harmful error because of the danger that a jury will take the bad character or propensity to crime thus demonstrated as evidence of guilt of the crime charged\
• discussing Young v. State, 234 So. 2d 341 (Fla. 1970), where this Court found prejudicial error in the admission of 45 autopsy photographs, including 25 depicting the victim’s partially decomposed body

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