Published in Forum 8, Eighth Judicial Circuit Bar Association, Inc. Newsletter, Vol. 71, No. 1, September of 2011
In December of 2010, the Florida Supreme Court, in Campanioni, Jr. v. City of Tampa, 51 So. 3d 452 (Fla. 2010), held that when a party objects to attorney misconduct during trial, and the objection is sustained, the party must also timely move for a mistrial in order to preserve the misconduct issue for appellate review of a motion for a new trial. If the issue is not properly ...