Casias v. State

VILLANTI, Judge.

Thomas Julian Casias seeks review of his conviction and sentence for one count of burglary of a dwelling. Because the State failed to offer any testimony to establish that the statistical analysis presented by the Florida Department of Law Enforcement (FDLE) crime laboratory analyst was generally accepted within the scientific community, we reverse and remand for a limited evidentiary hearing on this issue. We reject the other arguments raised by Casias without further discussion.

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