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STATE of Florida
v.
Evan PLOTKA
No. 93-867.
District Court of Appeal of Florida, Fifth District.
Dec 30, 1993.
Published opinion
627 So. 2d 1353
1993 Fla. App. LEXIS 13185
1993 WL 540158
Robert A. Butterworth, Atty. Gen., Tallahassee, and Rebecca Roark Wall, Asst. Atty. Gen., Daytona Beach, for appellant., Arthur J. England, Jr., and Elliot H. Scherker of Greenberg, Traurig, Hoffman, Lipoff, Rosen & Quentel, P.A., Miami, for appellee.
Cobb, Peterson, Sharp.
Published
W. SHARP, Judge.

The State appeals from the trial court’s order on post-trial motions, which granted a new trial in a criminal case, but if the State failed to take an appeal, then promising to enter a judgment of acquittal. Plotka was convicted after a jury trial in November, 1990, of committing a lewd act upon a child (§ 800.04). We affirm in part.

We hold that the trial judge acted within his discretion in ordering a new trial in this case. He determined that certain prejudicial testimony by a State witness should not have been admitted.[1] However, we disagree with the trial judge that the State failed to adduce sufficient evidence to take this case to the[*1354] jury, had the State witness’s objeeted-to testimony been excluded. Accordingly, we affirm the trial judge’s order of a new trial in this case; and remand this cause to the lower court for further proceedings.

AFFIRM in part; REMAND.

COBB and PETERSON, JJ., concur.
1

See State v. Kopko, 596 So.2d 669 (Fla.1992) and Pardo v. State, 596 So.2d 665 (Fla.1992).