STATE v. SEALY-DOE

No. 4D03-4526.

861 So.2d 530 (2003)

STATE of Florida, Petitioner, v. Yasmin SEALY-DOE, Respondent.

District Court of Appeal of Florida, Fourth District.

December 31, 2003.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Charles J. Crist, Attorney General, Tallahassee, and Melynda L. Melear, Assistant Attorney General, West Palm Beach, for petitioner.

No response required for respondent.


KLEIN, J.

The state seeks a writ of certiorari to quash a pretrial order indicating that the trial court would admit a sworn written statement given to the police by a witness who could not be located in order to testify at trial. We have the authority to grant such a writ where the state establishes a violation of a clearly established principle of law, resulting in a miscarriage of justice, if the pretrial ruling substantially impairs the state's ability to bring...

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