District Court of Appeal of Florida

A conviction and sentence for aggravated battery arising from a fight at a bar is reversed where the trial court erred in allowing a police officer to testify that a non-appearing witness' statement, the only person on the scene to come forward, was "consistent with what took place."

Appellate Information

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

Judges

• SHAHOOD, J.

Court

• District Court of Appeal of Florida

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Patrick C. Rastatter of Glass & Rastatter, P.A., Fort Lauderdale, for appellant.


• For Appellees:
  
• Charles J. Crist, Jr., Attorney General, Tallahassee, and Melanie Dale Surber, Assistant Attorney General, West Palm Beach, for appellee.