IN THE INTEREST OF T.T., A CHILD, APPELLANT,

v.

STATE OF FLORIDA, APPELLEE

Citator

Cited By

• Steele v. Kehoe, 747 So. 2d 931 (Fla. 1999)
  …district court’s holding that exoneration is a prerequisite to a legal malpractice action arising from a criminal prosecution.1 As noted in the dissent of Chief Judge Griffin, the majority’s decision conflicts with the decision in Martin v. Pafford, 583 So. 2d 736, 738 (Fla. 1st DCA 1991), which held that “Martin was not required to have succeeded in obtaining collateral relief from her criminal conviction before she could civilly sue her attorney for malpractice.” We find that, in a claim for legal malpract…

  ← 1 / 2 →
• A.A. v. Cornell Rolle, 604 So. 2d 813 (Fla. 1992)
  …o varying periods of incarceration in secure detention facilities. A.A. v. Rolle, 580 So. 2d 282, 285 (Fla.3d DCA 1991); L.L. v. Woolsey, 583 So. 2d 823, 823 (Fla.lst DCA 1991); A.M.R. v. State, 583 So. 2d 823, 824 (Fla.lst DCA 1991); T.T. v. State, 583 So. 2d 736, 736 (Fla.1st DCA 1991); In re T.S., 585 So. 2d 498, 498 (Fla. 1st DCA 1991); In re L.S., 589 So. 2d 467, 467 (Fla.lst DCA 1991). In A.A. and L.L., the district courts denied the children’s petitions for writs of habeas corpus and affirmed the sente…
• Rowe v. Schreiber, 725 So. 2d 1245 (Fla. 4th DCA 1999)
  …st important, unless exoneration is accomplished, a legal malpractice action would be an inadequate remedy. Id. Judge Griffin’s dissent in Steele noted that Steele was difficult to reconcile with the first district’s decision in Martin v. Pafford, 583 So. 2d 736 (Fla. 1st DCA 1991). In that case, Martin was convicted of first degree murder in 1981. The conviction was affirmed on direct appeal in 1982. On November 23, 1984, a lawyer wrote Martin that the attorney who had represented her at trial was incompet…

Authorities Cited

• T.D.L. v. Chinault, 570 So. 2d 1335 (Fla. 2d DCA 1990)
• Nu-Med Lake, Inc. v. Dep't OF Revenue, 580 So. 2d 282 (Fla. 1st DCA 1991)