STATE v. JONES

Case No. 2D18-3535.

283 So.3d 1259 (2019)

STATE of Florida, Petitioner, v. Ruben Allen JONES, Respondent.

District Court of Appeal of Florida, Second District.

Opinion filed November 1, 2019.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Ashley Moody , Attorney General, Tallahassee, and Elba Martin-Schomaker , Assistant Attorney General, Tampa; and Brian W. Haas , State Attorney, Tenth Judicial Circuit of Florida, and Victoria J. Avalon , Assistant State Attorney, Bartow, for Petitioner.

Philip Averbuck of Highland City, for Respondent.


Ruben Allen Jones has been charged in the county court with driving on a suspended license. Relying on Florida's statutory accident-report privilege, § 316.066(4), Fla. Stat. (2017), the county court suppressed statements of identity Mr. Jones made to police at the scene of an accident. The State took an appeal to the circuit...

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