ROOPNARINE v. STATE

No. 4D07-5015.

18 So.3d 1192 (2009)

Himechanri ROOPNARINE, Appellant, v. STATE of Florida, Appellee.

District Court of Appeal of Florida, Fourth District.

September 30, 2009.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Orlando Buch, Fort Lauderdale, for appellant.

Bill McCollum, Attorney General, Tallahassee, and Heidi L. Bettendorf, Assistant Attorney General, West Palm Beach, for appellee.


WARNER, J.

Himechanri Roopnarine appeals his conviction and sentence for grand theft. He claims that the court erred in excluding his exculpatory witness based upon a discovery violation. We agree that error occurred under the facts of this case, where the prejudice to the state could have been cured by another remedy short of excluding the witness. Therefore, we reverse the conviction.

The state charged Roopnarine with grand theft of jewelry worth $300 belonging...

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