Court Opinion

ID: 9780529
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-30 02:06:11.766094+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T07:34:06.803228
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CANADY, C.J.,
dissenting.
Because Corona failed to properly preserve the Confrontation Clause issue on which the majority relies for quashing the decision on review, I dissent. Under then applicable law, to preserve the confrontation clause issue, Corona was required— notwithstanding any adverse pretrial ruling — to make a specific Confrontation Clause objection at trial. See Spann v. State, 857 So.2d 845, 852 (Fla.2003) (requiring specific objection at trial to preserve issue for appeal); Feller v. State, 637 So.2d 911, 914 (Fla.1994) (holding that defendant who “failed to renew his confrontation clause objection when [evidence] was actually offered at trial” failed to preserve the Confrontation Clause issue for appellate review).8 Corona’s general hearsay objection at trial was therefore insufficient to preserve the Confrontation Clause issue. Furthermore, I agree with the Fifth District’s conclusion that the unpre-served error was not fundamental. Corona’s conviction and sentence should be upheld.

. Corona’s trial was conducted before the July 1, 2003, effective date of the provision of section 90.104(1)(b), Florida Statutes (2003), that a renewed objection when evidence is offered at trial is not necessary if there has been a prior "definitive ruling” excluding the evidence.