District Court of Appeal of Florida

Conviction for leaving the scene of a crash resulting in personal injury, in violation of section 316.027(1), Florida Statutes (2001), is reversed and remanded, where the prosecutor was erroneously permitted to place a witness on the stand, with knowledge that he was to testify adversely, for the sole purpose of "impeaching" him with a devastating prior statement.

Appellate Information

• Decided 01/18/2006
• Published 01/18/2006

Judges

• SCHWARTZ, Senior Judge., Before SUAREZ and CORTIÑAS, JJ., and SCHWARTZ, Senior Judge.

Court

• District Court of Appeal of Florida

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Bennett H. Brummer, Public Defender, and Leslie Scalley, Assistant Public Defender and Shannon P. McKenna, Assistant Public Defender, for appellant.


• For Appellees:
  
• Charles J. Crist, Jr., Attorney General, and John D. Barker, Assistant Attorney General, for appellee.