GORMAN v. STATE (2020)

District Court of Appeal of Florida, First District.

Joseph A. GORMAN, Appellant, v. STATE of Florida, Appellee.

No. 1D19-4470

Decided: July 21, 2020

Joseph A. Gorman, pro se, Appellant. Ashley Moody, Attorney General, Tallahassee, for Appellee.

Affirmed. See Fla. R. Evid. § 90.616(1) (“At the request of a party the court shall order, or upon its own motion the court may order, witnesses excluded from a proceeding so that they cannot hear the testimony of other witnesses ․” (emphasis supplied)); Chamberlain v. State, 881 So. 2d 1087, 1099–1100 (Fla. 2004) (holding that a prosecutor did not violate the rule of sequestration when he met with a detective during a break and discussed his potential testimony on recall, while the detective was still under oath; noting that there was no indication that the detective “remained in the courtroom during the testimony of another witness, or that [he] discussed his testimony with another witness”).

Per Curiam.

Rowe, Makar, and Tanenbaum, JJ., concur.

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