District Court of Appeal of Florida

Conviction for capital sexual battery is affirmed where defendant's extrajudicial confession was properly admitted under an exception to the general rule requiring the state to prove the corpus delicti of a crime as a predicate to the introduction of a confession.

Appellate Information

• Decided 12/09/2005
• Published 12/12/2005

Judges

• PADOVANO, J.

Court

• District Court of Appeal of Florida

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Nancy A. Daniels, Public Defender;  Janice G. Scott, Assistant Public Defender;  and Steven L. Seliger, Assistant Public Defender, Tallahassee, for Appellant.


• For Appellees:
  
• Charlie Crist, Attorney General;  and Sherri Tolar Rollison, Assistant Attorney General, Office of the Attorney General, Tallahassee, for Appellee.