Case Name: STATE of Florida, Appellant, v. Evan PLOTKA, Appellee
Court: Florida District Court of Appeal
Jurisdiction: Florida
Decision Date: 1993-12-30
Citations: 627 So. 2d 1353
Docket Number: No. 93-867
Parties: STATE of Florida, Appellant, v. Evan PLOTKA, Appellee.
Judges: COBB and PETERSON, JJ., concur.
Reporter: Southern Reporter, Second Series
Volume: 627
Pages: 1353–1354

Head Matter:
STATE of Florida, Appellant, v. Evan PLOTKA, Appellee.
No. 93-867.
District Court of Appeal of Florida, Fifth District.
Dec. 30, 1993.
Robert A. Butterworth, Atty. Gen., Tallahassee, and Rebecca Roark Wall, Asst. Atty. Gen., Daytona Beach, for appellant.
Arthur J. England, Jr., and Elliot H. Scherker of Greenberg, Traurig, Hoffman, Lipoff, Rosen & Quentel, P.A., Miami, for appellee.

Opinion:
W. SHARP, Judge.
The State appeals from the trial court's order on post-trial motions, which granted a new trial in a criminal case, but if the State failed to take an appeal, then promising to enter a judgment of acquittal. Plotka was convicted after a jury trial in November, 1990, of committing a lewd act upon a child (§ 800.04). We affirm in part.
We hold that the trial judge acted within his discretion in ordering a new trial in this case. He determined that certain prejudicial testimony by a State witness should not have been admitted. However, we disagree with the trial judge that the State failed to adduce sufficient evidence to take this case to the jury, had the State witness's objeeted-to testimony been excluded. Accordingly, we affirm the trial judge's order of a new trial in this case; and remand this cause to the lower court for further proceedings.
AFFIRM in part; REMAND.
COBB and PETERSON, JJ., concur.
. See State v. Kopko, 596 So.2d 669 (Fla.1992) and Pardo v. State, 596 So.2d 665 (Fla.1992).