District Court of Appeal of Florida

Defendant's conviction of manslaughter and false imprisonment is reversed where the admission of defendant's statement possibly affected the jury and the statement was hearsay and did not fall under the excited utterance exception.

Appellate Information

• Decided 12/27/2006
• Published 12/27/2006

Judges

• CORTIÑAS, Judge., Before FLETCHER and CORTIÑAS, JJ., and SCHWARTZ, Senior Judge.

Court

• District Court of Appeal of Florida

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Bennett H. Brummer, Public Defender, and Valerie Jonas, Assistant Public Defender, for appellant.


• For Appellees:
  
• Charles J. Crist, Jr., Attorney General, and Jill K. Traina, Assistant Attorney General, for appellee.