Vantavia B. Jackson-Johnson v. State of Florida

The defendant is a former corrections deputy who was convicted of official misconduct, culpable negligence, and accessory after the fact. The convictions arose out of allegations that an inmate was allowed to leave his cell and attack another inmate, and that the defendant arid her coworker falsified records in a failed attempt to cover up the incident. :•* •

A key piece of evidence leading to the defendant’s convictions was a third inmate’s statements on recorded jailhouse phone calls describing the incident as it occurred before him during the phone calls. The defendant primarily argues that…