MAGALETTI v. STATE

No. 2D01-3074.

847 So.2d 523 (2003)

Joseph MAGALETTI, Appellant, v. STATE of Florida, Appellee.

District Court of Appeal of Florida, Second District.

Rehearing Denied June 12, 2003.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

James Marion Moorman, Public Defender, and James T. Miller, Special Assistant Public Defender, Bartow, for Appellant.

Charles J. Crist, Jr., Attorney General, Tallahassee, and Dale E. Tarpley, Assistant Attorney General, Tampa, for Appellee.


STRINGER, Judge.

Joseph Magaletti challenges his judgment and sentence for the first-degree murder of Kathleen Leonard. He advances four arguments on appeal; we affirm, without discussion, as to three of these but write to address one—identification evidence in the form of mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) analysis, an issue of first impression in Florida appellate courts.1

On March 12, 1995, Kathleen Leonard's employer made a missing...

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