DOWNS v. STATE

No. 5D08-3925.

40 So.3d 49 (2010)

William Herman DOWNS, Appellant, v. STATE of Florida, Appellee.

District Court of Appeal of Florida, Fifth District.

July 2, 2010.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Stephen Plotnick, of Law Offices of Victor O. Mead, Winter Park, for Appellant.

Bill McCollum, Attorney General, Tallahassee, and Mary G. Jolley and Kellie A. Nielan, Assistant Attorneys General, Daytona Beach, for Appellee.


ORFINGER, J.

William Downs appeals his conviction of sexual battery on a child under twelve for which he received a life sentence. Because the trial court erred in allowing the State to introduce evidence of uncharged crimes, we reverse for a new trial.

The State charged Downs with one count of capital sexual battery by digital penetration. The victim, L.B., who was twenty-three years of age at the time of trial, testified that one night when she was seven...

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