Supreme Court of Florida
Filed: Oct. 16, 2014
Supreme Court of Florida _ No. SC12-1050 _ JAMES WARMINGTON, Petitioner, vs. STATE OF FLORIDA, Respondent. [October 16, 2014] PARIENTE, J. The conflict issue in this case concerns whether testimony elicited by the State during a criminal trial involving a defendant’s failure to produce exculpatory evidence impermissibly shifted the burden of proof from the State to the defendant. In Warmington v. State, 86 So. 3d 1188 , 1192 (Fla. 3d DCA 2012), the Third District Court of Appeal held that such te..
