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E.L.F. v. State, No. 4D09-703 (Fla. App. 4/21/2010) (Fla. App., 2010)

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E.L.F., Appellant, v. STATE OF FLORIDA, Appellee. No. 4D09-703. District Court of Appeal of Florida, Fourth District. April 21, 2010. Appeal from the Circuit Court for the Seventeenth Judicial Circuit, Broward County, Elijah H. Williams, Judge, L.T. Case No. 08-2372 DL00A. Carey Haughwout, Public Defender, and Patrick B. Burke, Assistant Public Defender, West Palm Beach, for appellant. Bill McCollum, Attorney General, Tallahassee, and Mark J. Hamel, Assistant Attorney General, West Palm Beach, for appellee. FARMER, J. In this case a traffic altercation between two drivers led to a third party being charged with criminal battery. The issue is whether the third party, defendant, was acting as a good Samaritan defending himself. The State’s case began with this background...continue to full post

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