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900 So. 2d 624

Docket No. 4D03-3107.

Chestnut v. State

Samuel CHESTNUT, Appellant, v. STATE of Florida, Appellee.

District Court of Appeal of Florida

Decided March 16, 2005.

Rehearing Denied May 10, 2005.

District Court of Appeal of Florida · decided 2005-03-16

Cited by 1 later decisions — most recently June 2006

1 state decisions

Applies FL 28 § 28.213

Relies on 884 So. 2d 1074 - Warren v. State

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Decided 2005-03-16

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¶1Samuel Chestnut, Belle Glade, pro se.

¶2Charles J. Crist, Jr., Attorney General, Tallahassee, and Jeanine M. Germanowicz, Assistant Attorney General, West Palm Beach, for appellee.

¶3PER CURIAM.

¶4Samuel Chestnut was convicted in 1976 of one count of kidnapping and one count of sexual battery. He seeks review of the trial court's order that denied his motion requesting that DNA testing be performed on certain physical evidence. We reverse the trial court's order and remand for the trial court to conduct a hearing, pursuant to rule 3.853, and make a factual determination as to whether the evidence still exists for testing. We have reviewed the order for disposition, and accompanying certification of destruction. We find that the unsworn certification creates a factual dispute surrounding the destruction of the evidence at issue. See e.g. Warren v. State,884 So.2d 1074 (Fla. 2nd DCA 2004), Fla. Stat. § 28.213.

¶5GUNTHER, GROSS and TAYLOR, JJ., concur.

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