District Court of Appeal of Florida

A petition for certiorari review of a nonfinal order in a pending criminal prosecution denying admission of child hearsay evidence at defendant's trial is granted where the trial court's ruling that a hearsay statement was inadmissible based on the Confrontation Clause represented a departure from the essential requirements of law.

Appellate Information

• Decided 08/02/2006
• Published 08/02/2006

Judges

• PER CURIAM.

Court

• District Court of Appeal of Florida

Counsel

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


• For Appellees:
  
• Carey Haughwout, Public Defender, and Margaret Good-Earnest and Barbara Wolfe, Assistant Public Defenders, West Palm Beach, for respondent.