Legal Opinion
Pinellas County ex rel. Board of County Commissioners
District Court of Appeal of Florida
Decided September 8, 1995No. 93-04092PublishedCited by 1 opinion
1Opinion of the Court
QUINCE, Judge.
Pinellas County (the County) appeals various trial and posttrial rulings in a wrongful death action. The appellees cross-appeal the admission of blood alcohol evidence and a jurisdictional issue. We reverse and remand for a new trial because the trial court erred in failing to give a jury instruction on driving a vehicle while under the influence of alcoholic beverages to the extent that one’s normal faculties are impaired.
Thomas Bettis, Sr., as personal representative of the estate of his deceased son, Thomas Bettis, Jr. (Bettis), filed a complaint for wrongful death against…
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