Sharif v. State

FRANK, Judge.

The appellant challenges convictions for cocaine possession, resisting arrest without violence, opposing or obstructing an officer without violence, and simple battery. We have considered and reverse each of the convictions and direct the conduct of a new trial.

The state did not reveal a rebuttal witness who, over appellant’s objection, testified and contradicted an aspect of the appellant’s testimony. The identity of rebuttal witnesses is not excepted from the state’s discovery obligation prescribed in Florida Rule of Criminal Procedure 3.220(b). Ratcliff v. State, 561 So.2d…