CALDWELL v. STATE

No. 4D12-4583.

137 So.3d 590 (2014)

Anthony A. CALDWELL, Sr., Appellant, v. STATE of Florida, Appellee.

District Court of Appeal of Florida, Fourth District.

April 30, 2014.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Carey Haughwout , Public Defender, and Richard B. Greene , Assistant Public Defender, West Palm Beach, for appellant.

Pamela Jo Bondi , Attorney General, Tallahassee, and Don M. Rogers , Assistant Attorney General, West Palm Beach, for appellee.


GROSS, J.

We reverse appellant's conviction for unarmed robbery due to the admission of hearsay in the form of a booking report.

Appellant was charged with armed robbery for forcibly taking jumbo size house fried rice from a deliveryman while holding him at gunpoint. At trial, through a Chinese interpreter, the deliveryman described the robber as a middle aged 5'9" black male, weighing "around 200 pounds." This differed from his initial report to the police...

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