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3RD DCA ROUNDUP-WOOPS HE DID IT AGAIN EDITION.

By "Captain Liberty" and "Rumpole"

You know him, you love him (literary license) you can't live without reading ANOTHER one of his cases reversed on appeal. Roosevelt v State: This was a Civil Commitment trial wherein the prosecution sought to have the defendant committed for an indeterminate length of time as a sexual predator. Judge Peter Adrien presiding. From the decision: For the reasons stated below, the judgment is reversed and the cause remanded for a new trial. First, the State was allowed to cross-examine the expert concerning her testimony in a child custody case in the mid-1990?s in the State of Washington where the judge found the expert?s testimony not credible. The expert had been appointed as a guardian ad litem in a contested custody case involving four children...continue to full post

Full post as published by Justice Building Blog on August 05, 2010 (boomark / email).