Moving quickly after the Florida Supreme Court ordered a new trial for a man convicted of sexually abusing his stepdaughter, a state lawmaker Dec. 19 filed a bill that would allow secretly recorded conversations to be used as evidence in such cases.
Rep. Jared Moskowitz, D-Coral Springs, filed the proposal (HB 131) little more than a week after the Supreme Court ruled that recordings made by Richard R. McDade’s stepdaughter should not have been allowed into his trial. A Lee County jury found McDade guilty of five charges, including sexual battery on a child younger than 12, but the Supreme Court overturned the convictions.
