Brenda L Morris v. State of Florida

Teacher’s aide Brenda L. Morris appeals her misdemeanor battery conviction arising from the discipline of a combative young student outside a pre-kindergarten classroom in Pensacola. We reverse because the jury acquitted Ms. Morris" of child abuse, and it wasn’t" otherwise a crime for Ms. Morris to have non-abusively touched the student during this incident.

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In March 2016, an ESE teacher at -Lincoln Park Elementary School could, not get a combative four-year-old student to stop acting out. The student stood on top of a table inside the classroom, kicked, spat, threw blows, and called the…