District Court of Appeal of Florida

Defendant's conviction for attempted sexual battery of a person over the age of twelve is reversed for a new trial where the trial court erred in admitting a victim-s statements to an officer about twenty minutes after the incident at issue as an excited utterance.

Appellate Information

• Decided 02/15/2006
• Published 02/15/2006

Judges

Court

• District Court of Appeal of Florida

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Carey Haughwout, Public Defender, and Tatjana Ostapoff, Assistant Public Defender, West Palm Beach, for appellant.


• For Appellees:
  
• Charles J. Crist, Jr., Attorney General, Tallahassee, and Jeanine M. Germanowicz, Assistant Attorney General, West Palm Beach, for appellee.