SAMUEL v. STATE

No. 4D04-2709.

925 So.2d 475 (2006)

R.L. SAMUEL, Appellant, v. STATE of Florida, Appellee.

District Court of Appeal of Florida, Fourth District.

April 19, 2006.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Carey Haughwout, Public Defender, and Jeffrey N. Golant, Assistant Public Defender, West Palm Beach, for appellant.

Charles J. Crist, Jr., Attorney General, Tallahassee, and James J. Carney, Assistant Attorney General, West Palm Beach, for appellee.


MAY, J.

The defendant appeals his conviction and sentence on two counts of lewd and lascivious battery on a minor. He argues, among other things, that the two convictions violate his right against double jeopardy. We disagree and affirm.

This is yet another sexual scenario in which this court is called upon to determine whether sexual acts occur so close in time and space that they should constitute a single crime or whether there is a sufficient temporal...

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