District Court of Appeal of Florida

A conviction for sexual battery on a child and related counts is reversed for a new trial where the state-s failure to timely advise defendant that a child intended at trial to recant her pretrial deposition testimony as perjured, and the admission of testimony of a co-defendant without allowing the defense a reasonable opportunity to depose her, constituted prejudicial errors.

Appellate Information

• Decided 05/24/2006
• Published 05/24/2006

Judges

• FARMER, J.

Court

• District Court of Appeal of Florida

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• David G. Vinikoor, Fort Lauderdale, for appellant.


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