Case ID: so2d_490/html/1383-02.html
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Author: {"author": "PER CURIAM. COBB, Chief Judge,", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

STATE of Florida, Petitioner, v. Charles FOSTER, Respondent.
    No. 86-799.
    District Court of Appeal of Florida, Fifth District.
    July 17, 1986.
    S. Ray Gill, State . Atty., and Robert P. Cole, Asst. State Atty., Tavares, for petitioner.
    Howard H. Babb, Jr., Public Defender, and Carla R. Pepperman, Asst. Public Defender, Tavares, for respondent.
   PER CURIAM.

Certiorari denied.

ORFINGER and COWART, JJ., concur.

COBB, J., dissents with opinion.

COBB, Chief Judge,

dissenting:

The state has petitioned for certiorari review of a court order directing a rape victim and her child to submit to an H.L.A. blood test. The trial issue is whether the respondent is guilty of sexual battery. The trial court has no authority to order a physical examination of a witness. State v. Smith, 260 So.2d 489 (Fla.1972). The instant order, therefore, is a departure from essential requirements of law and should be quashed. Therefore, I dissent.