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SWANSON v. ROBLES

No. 2D12-1257.

128 So.3d 915 (2013)

Aaron SWANSON, Appellant, v. Linda J. ROBLES, as Personal Representative of the Estate of Miguel A. Mercado, Deceased, Appellee.

District Court of Appeal of Florida, Second District.

December 20, 2013.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Joseph F. Kinman of Ogden & Sullivan, P.A., Tampa, and Henry G. Gyden and Dorothy V. DiFiore of Haas, Lewis, DiFiore P.A., Tampa, for Appellant.

Joel D. Eaton of Podhurst Orseck, P.A., Miami, and Weldon Earl Brennan of Brennan, Holden & Kavouklis, P.A., Tampa, for Appellee.

SILBERMAN, Judge.

As the result of a vehicular collision, Linda J. Robles, as personal representative of the estate of Miguel A. Mercado, deceased, brought this wrongful death action against Aaron Swanson. Swanson appeals from the final judgment totaling over $6,000,000. We conclude that the trial court committed reversible error in allowing irrelevant and highly prejudicial evidence of Swanson's drug use in the first phase of trial when he had admitted liability...

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