Decile v. State

In Decile v. State, 516 So. 2d 1139 (Fla. 4th DCA 1987), a police officer electronically monitored a conversation between a confidential informant and the defendant wherein the informant told the defendant, "I am here, I need eight," and the defendant replied, "no problem, come inside, I get you rocks." At trial, the informant did not testify, but the police officer did. On appeal we held, following Chacon, that the police officer's testimony as to statements he heard the confidential informant make to the defendant were admissible as "verbal acts," which "served to prove the nature of the act as opposed to proving the truth of the alleged statements." Id. at 1140.