Opinion
No. 97-2718.
December 9, 1998.
An appeal from the Circuit Court for Dade County, Alex E. Ferrer, Judge.
Bennett H. Brummer, Public Defender, and Clayton R. Kaeiser, Special Assistant Public Defender, for Appellant.
Robert A. Butterworth, Attorney General, and Paulette R. Taylor, Assistant Attorney General, for Appellee.
Before SCHWARTZ, C.J., and COPE and GERSTEN, JJ.
Yves St. Jean appeals his conviction for manslaughter, contending that there should be a reversal on account of a portion of the closing argument by the prosecutor. We conclude that the objected-to argument was fair reply to the defendant's own closing argument, which charged improper police interrogation techniques. See Ferguson v. State, 417 So.2d 639, 641-42 (Fla. 1982); Kent v. State, 702 So.2d 265, 269 (Fla. 5th DCA 1997), review denied, 717 So.2d 533 (Fla. 1998); Meeks v. State, 667 So.2d 1002, 1002-03 (Fla. 3d DCA 1996).
Affirmed.