Gorman v. State

Full title: JOSEPH A. GORMAN, Appellant, v. STATE OF FLORIDA, Appellee.

Court: FIRST DISTRICT COURT OF APPEAL STATE OF FLORIDA

Date published: Jul 21, 2020

300 So. 3d 376 (Fla. Dist. Ct. App. 2020)

Opinion

No. 1D19-4470

07-21-2020

Joseph A. GORMAN, Appellant, v. STATE of Florida, Appellee.

Joseph A. Gorman, pro se, Appellant. Ashley Moody, Attorney General, Tallahassee, for Appellee.

PER CURIAM.

Joseph A. Gorman, pro se, Appellant.

Ashley Moody, Attorney General, Tallahassee, for Appellee.

Per Curiam.

AFFIRMED. See Fla. R. Evid. § 90.616(1) ("At the request of a party the court shall order, or upon its own motion the court may order, witnesses excluded from a proceeding so that they cannot hear the testimony of other witnesses ...." (emphasis supplied)); Chamberlain v. State , 881 So. 2d 1087, 1099–1100 (Fla. 2004) (holding that a prosecutor did not violate the rule of sequestration when he met with a detective during a break and discussed his potential testimony on recall, while the detective was still under oath; noting that there was no indication that the detective "remained in the courtroom during the testimony of another witness, or that [he] discussed his testimony with another witness").

Rowe, Makar, and Tanenbaum, JJ., concur.