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Florida Cases Where Jurors Were Allowed to Hear Evidence of Previous False Accusations

By Ron Chapman

          On February 23, 2009, I posted an article on this site entitled Why Florida Jurors Are Rarely Allowed to Hear Evidence of Previous False Accusations.  In that article, I discussed two Florida cases, Pantoja v. State of Florida and Washington v. State of Florida, both of which held that jurors should not have been allowed to hear evidence that a prosecution witness had previously made false accusations against another person.  At the conclusion of that article, I noted that Florida's Second District Court of Appeal (fortunately) sees things differently when it comes to allowing jurors to hear such evidence.          For example, in the case of Jaggers v...continue to full post

Full post as published by Palm Beach Criminal Defense Blog on March 05, 2009 (boomark / email).