Kaseta v. State

NORTHCUTT, Judge.

Almost a decade after Kimberly Mim-movich went missing a grand jury indicted her boyfriend, Dion Kaseta, for her murder. The State eventually filed an amended information charging Kaseta with manslaughter and a jury found him guilty of that crime. We conclude that Kaseta’s conviction was marred by an evidentiary error that requires a new trial.

At Kaseta’s November 2012 trial, all agreed that late'on the evening of December 8, 2001, he drove from the couple’s mobile home- in Polk County to the home of his sister and brother-in-law in Deer-field, Beach, on Florida’s southeast…