District Court of Appeal of Florida

Convictions for unlicensed practice of medicine causing serious bodily injury, felony third degree murder, and culpable negligence are reversed as to the convictions for murder and unlicensed practice of medicine causing serious bodily injury where a medical examiner was unqualified to render an opinion on causation that linked defendant's act of injecting an individual with silicone to her resulting death.

Appellate Information

• Decided 04/26/2006
• Published 04/26/2006

Judges

Court

• District Court of Appeal of Florida

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Robert C. Buschel of Taylor Hodkin Kopelowitz & Ostrow, P.A., and Eric T. Schwartzreich of Carter Schwartzreich & Yates, P.A., Fort Lauderdale, for appellant.


• For Appellees:
  
• Charles J. Crist, Jr., Attorney General, Tallahassee, and Joseph A. Tringali, Assistant Attorney General, West Palm Beach, for appellee.