CASIAS v. STATE

No. 2D09-4952.

94 So.3d 611 (2011)

Thomas Julian CASIAS, Appellant, v. STATE of Florida, Appellee.

District Court of Appeal of Florida, Second District.

Rehearing Denied July 14, 2012.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

James Marion Moorman , Public Defender, and William L. Sharwell , Assistant Public Defender, Bartow, for Appellant.

Pamela Jo Bondi , Attorney General, Tallahassee, and Cerese Crawford Taylor , Assistant Attorney General, Tampa, for Appellee.


VILLANTI, Judge.

Thomas Julian Casias seeks review of his conviction and sentence for one count of burglary of a dwelling. Because the State failed to offer any testimony to establish that the statistical analysis presented by the Florida Department of Law Enforcement (FDLE) crime laboratory analyst was generally accepted within the scientific community, we reverse and remand for a limited evidentiary hearing on this issue. We reject the other arguments raised by...

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