Supreme Court of Florida

Ramming a car with passengers inside it may constitute a battery upon the passengers if the passengers were "sufficiently closely connected" with the car.

Appellate Information

• Decided 12/13/2001
• Published 12/13/2001

Judges

• HARDING, J.

Court

• Supreme Court of Florida

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• James Marion Moorman, Public Defender, and Raymond Dix, Assistant Public Defender, Tenth Judicial Circuit, Bartow, FL, for Petitioner.


• For Appellees:
  
• Robert A. Butterworth, Attorney General, Robert J. Krauss, Senior Assistant Attorney General, Chief of Criminal Law, and Susan D. Dunlevy, Assistant Attorney General, Tampa, FL, for Respondent.