Pointing to a controversial state standard about expert-witness testimony, a divided appeals court ordered a new trial for a man convicted of vehicular manslaughter in a high-speed crash that killed five people in 2013 in South Florida.

A panel of the Fourth District Court of Appeal, in a 2-1 decision, said key testimony from a Florida Highway Patrol officer should not been admitted under the expert-witness law. As a result, the court ruled that Jabari Kemp should receive a new trial after being sentenced to 30 years in prison in the deaths in Palm Beach County.

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