VALDERRAMA v. STATE

No. 4D00-3831.

816 So.2d 1143 (2002)

Luis Fernando VALDERRAMA, Appellant, v. STATE of Florida, Appellee.

District Court of Appeal of Florida, Fourth District.

Rehearing Denied June 6, 2002.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Carey Haughwout, Public Defender, and Tatjana Ostapoff, Assistant Public Defender, West Palm Beach, for appellant.

Robert A. Butterworth, Attorney General, Tallahassee, and Claudine M. LaFrance, Assistant Attorney General, West Palm Beach, for appellee.


WARNER, J.

Appellant raises three issues in this appeal from his convictions for sexual battery and lewd assault. He first claims that the court erred in denying his motion for judgment of acquittal on the lewd assault charge because the corpus delicti was not established before his confession was admitted. However, he failed to object to the admission of the confession on that ground, and his motion for judgment of acquittal did not alert the trial court to this...

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