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STATE v. COFFMAN

No. 97-04247.

746 So.2d 471 (1998)

STATE of Florida, Appellant, v. Douglas COFFMAN, Appellee.

District Court of Appeal of Florida, Second District.

August 26, 1998.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Robert A. Butterworth, Attorney General, Tallahassee, and Patricia E. Davenport, Assistant Attorney General, Tampa, for Appellant.

James Marion Moorman, Public Defender, Bartow, and Robert D. Rosen, Assistant Public Defender, Bartow, for Appellee.

THREADGILL, Acting Chief Judge.

The State contends the trial court erred in setting aside a jury verdict and granting the appellee, Douglas Coffman, a new trial in this aggravated child abuse case. We agree and reverse.

Coffman was charged with aggravated child abuse based on malicious punishment in violation of section 827.03(1)(c), Florida Statutes (1995), after his girlfriend's six-month-old child, for whom Coffman had been babysitting, was rushed to the...

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