Case Name: Greg MASSEY, Appellant, v. The STATE of Florida, Appellee
Court: Florida District Court of Appeal
Jurisdiction: Florida
Decision Date: 2000-01-26
Citations: 760 So. 2d 956
Docket Number: No. 3D98-2494
Parties: Greg MASSEY, Appellant, v. The STATE of Florida, Appellee.
Judges: Before SCHWARTZ, C.J., and JORGENSON and FLETCHER, JJ.
Reporter: Southern Reporter, Second Series
Volume: 760
Pages: 956–957

Head Matter:
Greg MASSEY, Appellant, v. The STATE of Florida, Appellee.
No. 3D98-2494.
District Court of Appeal of Florida, Third District.
Jan. 26, 2000.
Opinion Denying Rehearing March 29, 2000.
Bennett H. Brummer, Public Defender and Manuel Alvarez, Assistant Public Defender, for appellant.
Robert A. Butterworth, Attorney General and Consuelo Maingot, Assistant Attorney General, for appellee.
Before SCHWARTZ, C.J., and JORGENSON and FLETCHER, JJ.

Opinion:
PER CURIAM.
A juror did not truthfully respond to a direct question on voir dire as to whether she had a personal involvement in the criminal justice system by failing to disclose that, less than four years before the trial, she had been charged with a felony, placed in Pretrial Diversion through the intervention of the State Attorney's Office which was prosecuting the instant case and later had the case dismissed after she successfully completed the program. When these facts became known to the defense after a guilty verdict and conviction, it moved for a new trial on this ground. Although the motion was denied, the prevailing law requires the determination that it should have been granted. De La Rosa v. Zequeira, 659 So.2d 239 (Fla.1995); see Lowrey v. State, 705 So.2d 1367 (Fla.1998).
The judgment is therefore reversed and the cause remanded for a new trial.