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Gutierrez v. State
1999 Fla. App. LEXIS 9635
Fla. Dist. Ct. App.
1999
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SCHWARTZ, Chief Judge.

Rejecting the appellant’s primary claim of error on this appeal from his conviction for child abuse, we hold that the trial court properly admitted testimony of an ac-knowledgedly qualified expert physician, Dr. Apollo, that, to a “95 percent or more” medical certainty, the injuries sustained by the victim in this case were “consistent” with physical abuse. §§ 90.702, 90.703, Fla. Stat. (1997) (“Testimony in the form of an opinion or inference otherwise admissible is not objectionable because it includes an ultimate issue to be decided by the trier of fact.”); Glendening v. State, 536 So.2d 212, 220-221 (Fla.1988), cert. denied, 492 U.S. 907, 109 S.Ct. 3219, 106 L.Ed.2d 569 (1989); State v. Townsend, 635 So.2d 949 (Fla.1994). Compare Farley v. State, 324 So.2d 662 (Fla. 4th DCA 1975), cert. denied, 336 So.2d 1184 (Fla.1976)(opinion that defendant committed crime inadmissable); Spradley v. State, 442 So.2d 1039 (Fla. 2d DCA 1983)(same). By the same token, the doctor’s report, containing roughly the same opinion, was also correctly admitted. See § 90.803(6)(b), Fla. Stat. (1997).

Affirmed.

Case Details

Case Name: Gutierrez v. State
Court Name: District Court of Appeal of Florida
Date Published: Jul 21, 1999
Citation: 1999 Fla. App. LEXIS 9635
Docket Number: No. 98-2709
Court Abbreviation: Fla. Dist. Ct. App.
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