State v. Womack

The State appeals a trial court order repressing a grand jury presentment after five parties argued various parts of the presentment should be expunged or repressed. These parties include: Lisa Womack, Chief of the Lakeland Police Department (LPD); Ann Dinges, former LPD Public Information Officer; Roger Mallory, LPD General Counsel;1 Doug Thomas, City Manager of Lakeland, Florida; and Gow Fields, Mayor of Lakeland, Florida. Because all of the expunged statements are lawful and proper, we reverse.

I. Legal Framework

“The question of whether statements in a presentment must be expunged, because…