TOSTA v. STATE

No. 4D00-1690.

786 So.2d 21 (2001)

Robert TOSTA, Appellant, v. STATE of Florida, Appellee.

District Court of Appeal of Florida, Fourth District.

Rehearing Denied May 18, 2001.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Carey Haughwout, Public Defender, and Margaret Good Earnest, Assistant Public Defender, West Palm Beach, for appellant.

Robert A. Butterworth, Attorney General, Tallahassee, and Bart Schneider, Assistant Attorney General, West Palm Beach, for appellee.


SHAHOOD, J.

We reverse appellant's conviction for grand theft auto and resisting arrest without violence based on the admission of inadmissible hearsay testimony.

On December 17, 1998, Detective Oman observed appellant drive past his parked unmarked police car two or three times. The officer ran the license tag and began to follow appellant. Another Sheriff's deputy also followed appellant in a marked patrol car. When Detective Oman attempted to effect a traffic...

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