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596 So. 2d 669

Docket No. 77887.

State v. Kopko

STATE of Florida, Petitioner, v. Martin David KOPKO, Respondent.

Supreme Court of Florida

Decided March 26, 1992.

Supreme Court of Florida · decided 1992-03-26

Cited by 11 later decisions — most recently December 2000

11 state decisions

Relies on 596 So. 2d 665 - Pardo v. State · 577 So. 2d 956 - Kopko v. State

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Decided 1992-03-26

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¶1Robert A. Butterworth, Atty. Gen. and Judy Taylor Rush, Asst. Atty. Gen., Daytona Beach, for petitioner.

¶2Christopher A. Grillo, P.A., Ft. Lauderdale, for respondent.

¶3BARKETT, Justice.

¶4We have for review Kopko v. State,577 So.2d 956, 963 (Fla. 5th DCA 1991), in which the district court certified the following question of great public importance:[1]

In a case in which the child victim of a sexual offense testified fully and completely at trial as to the offense perpetrated upon him or her, can it constitute reversible error to admit, pursuant to section 90.803(23), Florida Statutes [1989], prior, consistent out-of-court statements of the child which were cumulative to the child's in-court testimony or merely bolstered it?

¶5We disapproved the district court's opinion in Kopko in Pardo v. State,596 So.2d 665 (Fla. 1992). We therefore quash the opinion below on the certified question, and remand for proceedings consistent with our decision in Pardo.

¶6It is so ordered.

¶7SHAW, C.J., and OVERTON, McDONALD, GRIMES, KOGAN and HARDING, JJ., concur.

NOTES

¶8[1] We have jurisdiction pursuant to article V, section 3(b)(4) of the Florida Constitution.

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