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B.M. v. STATE

No. 3D10-2676.

66 So.3d 1013 (2011)

B.M., a juvenile, Appellant, v. The STATE of Florida, Appellee.

District Court of Appeal of Florida, Third District.

July 6, 2011.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Carlos J. Martinez , Public Defender, and Scott A. Srebnick and Alex Arteaga-Gomez , Special, Assistant Public Defender, for appellant.

Pamela Jo Bondi , Attorney General, and Keri T. Joseph , Assistant Attorney General, for appellee.

Before WELLS, C.J., and SHEPHERD, and EMAS, JJ.

WELLS, Chief Judge.

B.M., a juvenile, was charged with resisting arrest with violence and battery on a law enforcement officer. At trial, he was precluded from adducing evidence that the officer whom he allegedly resisted used excessive force during and following the arrest and about an internal affairs complaint B.M. brought against that officer. We find that the trial court erred in excluding this impeachment evidence:

The Sixth Amendment, as incorporated...

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