BASKIN, Judge.
Defendant appeals his conviction and sentence for assault, a lesser included offense of the original charge of sexual battery. We reverse because the trial court committed error in certain evidentiary rulings.
Melinda Mason, a fifteen-year old runaway, testified at trial that defendant Holliday, a former police officer, picked her up in his van as she was hitchhiking in Miami, drove her to his houseboat and raped her. Miss Mason testified that...
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