In the case of Booker v. State the appellate court granted the defendant’s appeal regarding his conviction for for the crime of leaving the scene of an accident involving injury and reversed defendant’s conviction, in a case arising out of one count of leaving the scene of a crash involving injury to a person, 2 counts of DUI involving damage to property or injury to a person, and 1 charge of obstructing and/or opposing a law enforcement without violence. Defendant didn’t appeal the other counts. The Second District Court of Appeal ruled that, to satisfy the requirement of intent pursuant to the applicable Florida statute, it isn’t enough for the State of Florida to establish that defendant was involved in an accident resulting in injury to a person or death, that the defendant either knew or should have known that he was in an accident, and that defendant willfully did not stop at the scene of the accident. See State vs. Mancuso. Rather, the prosecution must also "establish that the driver ‘either knew of the resulting injury or death or reasonably should have known from the nature of the accident,’" and that, when there are numerous impacts, the driver must know of the exact impact that resulted in the injury. the Second District Court of Appeal cited to the holding in K.W. vs. State. Accordingly the appellate court reversed the conviction on the count of leaving the scene of a crash involving injury, and affirmed all other counts.
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