STATE v. BROOKS

No. 2D08-4255.

17 So.3d 1261 (2009)

STATE of Florida, Appellant, v. Katrina BROOKS, Appellee.

District Court of Appeal of Florida, Second District.

September 23, 2009.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Bill McCollum, Attorney General, Tallahassee, and Ha Thu Dao, Assistant Attorney General, Tampa, for Appellant.

James Marion Moorman, Public Defender, and Richard J. Sanders, Assistant Public Defender, Bartow, for Appellee.


WHATLEY, Judge.

The State appeals the trial court's order granting judgment of acquittal in favor of Katrina Brooks on the charge of child neglect. We reverse.

Brooks was charged with aggravated manslaughter of a child in count one and neglect of a child involving great bodily harm, permanent disability, or permanent disfigurement in count two based on the drowning death of her nine-month-old son. Brooks placed her son and her two-year-old daughter in the...

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