JOHN OAKLEY, APPELLANT,

v.

STATE OF FLORIDA, APPELLEE

Citator

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• Disc. Tire Co. v. Bradford, 373 So. 3d 399 (Fla. 5th DCA 2023)
  …the specific grounds therefor.” Fla. R. Civ. P. 1.530(f). The appellate court is “dependent on the trial court to articulate [the] reasons supporting its order.” Jordan v. Brown, 855 So. 2d 231, 234 (Fla. 1st DCA 2003); see also Jones v. Atkinson, 974 So. 2d 573, 577 (Fla. 1st DCA 2008) (“We have previously expressed our reliance on trial judges to articulate the reasons for granting new trials so that we can intelligently review their orders, and we and other district courts of appeal have confined review…
• Loureiro v. State, 133 So. 3d 948 (Fla. 4th DCA 2013)
  …l a legal principle that the State may not introduce rebuttal evidence to explain or contradict evidence that the State itself offered, then like most legal principles, there are exceptions. A trial must be a search for the truth. Jones v. Atkinson, 974 So. 2d 573, 576 (Fla. 1st DCA 2008) (explaining that a trial court has broad discretion to rely on its talents, knowledge, and experience to keep search for the truth in a proper channel). Florida, like the federal courts, has enacted a statute specifically a…
• R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Co. v. Davis, 245 So. 3d 929 (Fla. 3d DCA 2018)
  …ence to the record. As RJ Reynolds correctly contends, the "Tipsy Coachman" doctrine cannot be used to affirm the trial court's order granting the new trial, as it is not applicable in an appeal from an order granting a new trial. Jones v. Atkinson, 974 So. 2d 573, 577 (Fla. 1st DCA 2008). Our independent review of the record does not support a finding of egregious misconduct on the part of RJ Reynolds's counsel that warrants overturning the jury's verdict and conducting a new trial on the alternate basis art…

Authorities Cited

• State v. White, 891 So. 2d 502 (Fla. 2004)