C.D.B. v. State

BENTON, Judge.

C.D.B. was adjudicated delinquent for loitering or prowling, in violation of section 856.021, Florida Statutes (1993), and placed on community control for six months. On appeal, C.D.B. argues for reversal on grounds that the trial court erred in excluding the testimony of an unlisted defense witness without conducting a Richardson hearing. Unable to conclude that this omission was harmless beyond a reasonable doubt, we reverse and remand.

At the adjudicatory hearing, a police officer testified that at two o’clock on the morning of November 15,1994, he heard an alarm at the Crab…