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Pickel v. State, No. 4D07-240 (Fla. App. 8/12/2009) (Fla. App., 2009)

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NORMAN PICKEL, Appellant, v. STATE OF FLORIDA, Appellee. No. 4D07-240 District Court of Appeal of Florida, Fourth District. August 12, 2009. Appeal from the Circuit Court for the Seventeenth Judicial Circuit, Broward County, Ana J. Gardiner, Judge, L.T. Case No. 05-19567CF10A. Carey Haughwout, Public Defender, and Patrick B. Burke, Assistant Public Defender, West Palm Beach, for appellant. Bill McCollum, Attorney General, Tallahassee, and James J. Carney, Assistant Attorney General, West Palm Beach, for appellee. FARMER, J. In the world of trial evidence, DNA may well be the whole meghilla. It is the single, most formidable evidence in proving many sexual offenses. Because of its scientific reliability, it is often regarded as conclusive. Once inculpatory DNA evidence is well and truly laid before the jury, a guilty verdict is all but a downhill slide on a glacier...continue to full post

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