FELICIANO v. STATE

No. 1D05-3740.

937 So.2d 818 (2006)

Jovan FELICIANO, Appellant, v. STATE of Florida, Appellee.

District Court of Appeal of Florida, First District.

September 20, 2006.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Nancy A. Daniels, Public Defender, Kathleen Stover, Assistant Public Defender, Jamie Spivey, Assistant Public Defender, and Leonard Holton, Assistant Public Defender, Tallahassee, for Appellant.

Charlie Crist, Attorney General, and Sheron Wells, Assistant Attorney General, Tallahassee, for Appellee.


BENTON, J.

On appeal from his conviction for violating section 794.05, Florida Statutes (2003), Jovan Feliciano argues that the "statutory rape law" is facially unconstitutional, in that it violates due process for failure to require proof that the defendant knew the minor's age. We affirm.

Mr. Feliciano was twenty-six years old by the time the brief liaison concluded. When they began having sexual intercourse, she was only two months beyond her seventeenth...

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