STATE v. GONZALEZ

No. 96-2823.

695 So.2d 1290 (1997)

STATE of Florida, Petitioner, v. Angela GONZALEZ, Patricia Pereira, Theresa Tripi, and Karen Lao, Respondents.

District Court of Appeal of Florida, Fourth District.

June 25, 1997.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Robert A. Butterworth, Attorney General, Tallahassee, and Denise S. Calegan, Assistant Attorney General, West Palm Beach, for petitioner.

Mary Cantwell and Bruce Schiller, Plantation, for Respondent-Angela Gonzalez. Scott Richardson, West Palm Beach, for Respondent-Patricia Pereira.

Richard B. Barkin, Boca Raton, for Respondent-Theresa Tripi.

Robert Puzzio, Fort Lauderdale, for Respondent-Karen Lao.


GROSS, Judge.

The state's petition for writ of certiorari challenges the trial court's order excluding a witness from testifying at trial. Because lesser sanctions had not yet been shown to be futile in securing the witness's attendance at a discovery deposition, we hold that the striking of the witness was improper and grant the writ.

One of the charges against the defendants in the trial court is that they struck victim Tina Ozarowski, a juvenile, with a...

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