District Court of Appeal of Florida

Order excluding three latent fingerprint reports from evidence is reversed where the trial court departed from the essential requirements of the law when it barred the State from offering any of the reports at trial and precluded the fingerprint expert from referencing or testifying to the content of the report without taking the additional required step of considering whether the State's discovery violations resulted in prejudice to the defense.

Appellate Information

• Decided 01/10/2007
• Published 01/10/2007

Judges

• SHEPHERD, J., Before FLETCHER, SHEPHERD and SUAREZ, JJ.

Court

• District Court of Appeal of Florida

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Bill McCollum, Attorney General, and Angel L. Fleming, Assistant Attorney General, for petitioner.


• For Appellees:
  
• Mark Seiden, Miami, for respondent.