STATE v. GREGO

No. 93-02242.

648 So.2d 743 (1994)

STATE of Florida, Appellant, v. Kathy Harbeson GREGO, Appellee.

District Court of Appeal of Florida, Second District.

Rehearing Denied October 11, 1994.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Robert A. Butterworth, Atty. Gen., and Christopher M. Sierra, Asst. Atty. Gen., Tampa, for appellant.

Joseph F. McDermott, St. Petersburg Beach, for appellee.


CAMPBELL, Judge.

In this capital sexual battery case, the state challenges the pretrial order that excluded the two child victims' hearsay statements. We reverse because we find that the trial judge clearly abused her discretion when she found that the time, content and circumstances of the children's statements did not provide sufficient safeguards of reliability under section 90.803(23), Florida Statutes (1991).

Appellee, Kathy Grego, is the mother of Frankie...

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