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RIDGE v. RADEMACHER

No. 81-108.

402 So.2d 1312 (1981)

Ronald RIDGE, Appellant, v. Norman RADEMACHER and Hazel Rademacher, Appellees.

District Court of Appeal of Florida, Third District.

Rehearing Denied September 21, 1981.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Ress, Gomez, Rosenberg & Howland and Miguel A. Orta, North Miami, for appellant.

Michael Lechtman, North Miami Beach, for appellees.

Before BARKDULL, SCHWARTZ and FERGUSON, JJ.

PER CURIAM.

We hold that an unsworn statement1 to a municipal police officer in regard to an alleged crime is not accorded an absolute privilege which will bar, as a matter of law, a subsequent action for slander based on such a statement, particularly when it is alleged to have been maliciously made. Such a statement partakes of a qualified privilege and is a mixed question of law and fact, depending on the actual malice established....

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