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holding that the evidence only supported one instance of violence; subsequent threats which were not taken seriously by petitioner did not amount to violence under section 784.046
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Case No. 4D02-1475
Opinion filed October 30, 2002
Appeal of a non-final order from the Circuit Court for the Seventeenth Judicial Circuit, Broward County; Geoffrey Cohen, Judge; L.T. Case No. 02-5259 (57) FMCE.
Lewis K. Hanna of Lewis K. Hanna, P.A., Boca Raton, for appellant.
No appearance for appellee.
We reverse an injunction for protection against repeat violence entered under section 784.046, Florida Statutes (2001), which requires two acts of violence. In this case there was evidence to support only one act of violence against appellant. Although there were some threats issued by appellant after the first act of violence, these threats, which appellee admits he did not take seriously, did not amount to violence within the meaning of the statute. Reversed.
KLEIN, GROSS and TAYLOR, JJ., concur.