B.E. v. State

SCHWARTZ, Chief Judge.

B.E., who was fourteen years old at the time of the alleged offense, appeals from an adjudication of delinquency based upon a finding that he committed a lewd *567and lascivious act upon a three-year-old girl. See § 800.04, Fla.Stat. (1989). We reverse because the trial court’s refusal, made without an appropriate prior hearing, to permit the defense any pretrial access to the victim violated B.E.’s rights to the compulsory attendance of witnesses under the United States and Florida Constitutions.

B.E. was accused of improperly fondling the victim, a little girl named R., on…