The newest development in the seven-year-old forgery suit is an Appeals Court ruling that orders the case be retried in the fall, possibly in October, court clerks familiar with the docketing procedures at Orange Circuit Court tell GlobeSt.com. A specific date and a specific judge will be assigned shortly, clerks say.

"Everybody involved in this case doesn't like the publicity it is beginning to generate, not only in Orlando but across the country," a deputy clerk tells GlobeSt.com on condition of anonymity. "That's why the chief judge will be trying to find a docket spot for the case as soon as he can."

But one elected judge who definitely will not rehear the evidence is Walter Komanski. The three-panel 5th District Court of Appeals in Daytona Beach, FL ruled Komanski erred when he threw the case out in 1999, citing a four-year statute of limitations had expired. The Appeal Court ruled there is no statute of limitations in Florida on forgery charges.