PINELLAS BD. OF COM'RS v. BETTIS

No. 93-04092.

659 So.2d 1365 (1995)

PINELLAS COUNTY, BY and Through the BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS, Appellant/Cross-Appellee, v. Thomas Anthony BETTIS, Sr., Personal Representative of the Estate of Thomas Anthony Bettis, Jr.; Thomas Anthony Bettis, Sr. and Marlene P. Bettis, Appellees/Cross-Appellants.

District Court of Appeal of Florida, Second District.

September 8, 1995.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Howard M. Bernstein, Senior Assistant County Attorney, Clearwater, for appellant, cross-appellee.

Robert Dillinger and Paul W. Hitchens, St. Petersburg, for appellees/cross-appellants.


QUINCE, Judge.

Pinellas County (the County) appeals various trial and posttrial rulings in a wrongful death action. The appellees cross-appeal the admission of blood alcohol evidence and a jurisdictional issue. We reverse and remand for a new trial because the trial court erred in failing to give a jury instruction on driving a vehicle while under the influence of alcoholic beverages to the extent that one's normal faculties are impaired.

Thomas Bettis, Sr...

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