ZAMORA V. STATE

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Third District Court of Appeal State of Florida, January Term, A.D. 2011 Opinion filed April 27, 2011. Not final until disposition of timely filed motion for rehearing. ________________ No. 3D09-3445 Lower Tribunal No. 07-6622 ________________ Jose Zamora, Appellant, vs. The State of Florida, Appellee. An Appeal from the Circuit Court for Miami-Dade County, Peter R. Lopez, Judge. Carlos J. Martinez, Public Defender, and Robert Kalter, Assistant Public Defender, for appellant. Pamela Jo Bondi, Attorney General, and Douglas J. Glaid, Senior Assistant Attorney General, for appellee. Before WELLS and SALTER, JJ., and SCHWARTZ, Senior Judge. PER CURIAM. We affirm the defendant s judgments and convictions for first-degree murder, carjacking and burglary with an assault. We find no merit to the defendant s argument that the court erred in permitting the detective s testimony regarding the citation issued to defendant for driving with a suspended license. This was not Williams1 rule evidence. The suspended license violation was a charged offense, albeit an offense not being tried at that juncture. Additionally, evidence of a crime that is inseparable from the crime charged or evidence which is inextricably intertwined with the crime charged is not Williams rule evidence. Griffin v. State, 639 So. 2d 966, 968 (Fla. 1994). As the driving with a suspended license was part and parcel of the episode that led to the charges at issue in the trial, no impermissible Williams rule evidence was presented to the jury. Affirmed. 1 Williams v. State, 110 So. 2d 654 (Fla. 1959). 2

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