District Court of Appeal of Florida

A conviction for attempted second degree murder is reversed where the court erroneously: 1) allowed impeachment of appellant on an irrelevant collateral matter; and 2) admitted hearsay statements under the excited utterance exception to the hearsay rule.

Appellate Information

• Decided 05/31/2006
• Published 05/31/2006

Judges

• WARNER, J.

Court

• District Court of Appeal of Florida

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Carey Haughwout, Public Defender, and Paul E. Petillo, Assistant Public Defender, West Palm Beach, for appellant.


• For Appellees:
  
• Charles J. Crist, Jr., Attorney General, Tallahassee, and Daniel P. Hyndman, Assistant Attorney General, West Palm Beach, for appellee.