Legal Opinion

T.S. v. State

District Court of Appeal of Florida

Decided August 27, 1993No. 92-02805PublishedCited by 2 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

PARKER, Judge.

T.S. appeals an adjudication that he committed the offenses of a lewd act in the presence of a child and incest. We reverse based on the trial court’s errors in admitting hearsay evidence of the alleged sexual activity.

*605T.S. argues that the trial court committed reversible error in admitting three hearsay statements. The first statement that T.S. challenged was the testimony of Dale Lively, an employee with the child protection team, that Mary Hill, the grandmother of the alleged victim and appellant, contacted the office of the child protection team and stated that a child had…

2Cases cited5 opinions

  1. State v. DiGuilioSupreme Court of Florida · 1986
  2. Corley v. MeeseSupreme Court of the United States · 1988
  3. Jennings v. StateSupreme Court of Florida · 1987
  4. Johnson v. StateDistrict Court of Appeal of Florida · 1990
  5. Young v. StateDistrict Court of Appeal of Florida · 1992

3Cited by2 opinions

  1. Escoto v. StateDistrict Court of Appeal of Florida · 1993
  2. T.S. v. StateDistrict Court of Appeal of Florida · 1995

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