Owens v. State

948 So.2d 1009 (2007)

Lawrence OWENS, Appellant,

v.

STATE of Florida, Appellee.

No. 4D05-2715.

District Court of Appeal of Florida, Fourth District.

February 21, 2007.

Carey Haughwout, Public Defender, and David John McPherrin, Assistant Public Defender, West Palm Beach, for appellant.

Bill McCollum, Attorney General, Tallahassee, and Melanie Dale Surber, Assistant Attorney General, West Palm Beach, for appellee.

KLEIN, J.

Appellant was convicted of battery on a law enforcement officer and resisting an officer with violence. We reverse for a new trial because an officer responding to a dispatch was…