{"id":326,"date":"2018-03-30T10:19:46","date_gmt":"2018-03-30T14:19:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.stpetersburgsexcrimeslawyer.com\/?p=326"},"modified":"2024-09-06T12:28:56","modified_gmt":"2024-09-06T16:28:56","slug":"no-innocent-bystander-defense-in-florida-forced-sex-case","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stpetersburgcriminalattorney.net\/blog\/no-innocent-bystander-defense-in-florida-forced-sex-case\/","title":{"rendered":"No Innocent Bystander Defense in Florida Forced Sex Case"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When sex crime and other criminal cases involve more than one defendant, it can be tough to establish who committed what crime. That\u2019s often made more complicated by co-defendants who turn on one another and blame each other for committing the crimes. A <a href=\"https:\/\/edca.4dca.org\/DCADocs\/2016\/1708\/161708_1257_11012017_08583425_i.pdf\">recent case<\/a> out of Florida\u2019s Fourth District Court of Appeal makes clear that courts look at \u201cinnocent bystander\u201d defenses with quite a bit of skepticism.Mr. Henry and another person where charged with robbing four teenagers at gunpoint and then forcing them to engage in multiple sex acts with each other. The teenagers \u2013 three boys and one girl \u2013 were smoking marijuana and playing cards in an abandoned house when Henry and his friend arrived and joined in. The other man pulled a gun, ordered the victims to put their stuff on a table, told the girl to take off her pants, and then used a pencil to penetrate her vagina, according to the court. Henry and the other man took turns holding the gun while directing the victims to perform various sex \u201cscenes,\u201d the court said. A third man eventually arrived at the house, confronted Henry and his friend and told the victims to leave.<\/p>\n<p>Henry was convicted of four counts of false imprisonment, three counts of robbery and 17 counts of sexual battery with a firearm. He later appealed the sexual battery conviction, arguing that there wasn\u2019t enough evidence to show that he performed a sex act, instructed any of the victims to perform a sex act or that he threatened or pointed a gun at any of the witnesses. He likened the situation to that in Lovette v. State, a 1994 cases in which the Florida Supreme Court scrapped sexual battery charges against a man involved in an armed robbery who was not in the room when his co-defendants committed sexual battery.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.stpetersburgcriminalattorney.net\/blog\/no-innocent-bystander-defense-in-florida-forced-sex-case\/#more-326\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading \u2192<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When sex crime and other criminal cases involve more than one defendant, it can be tough to establish who committed what crime. That\u2019s often made more complicated by co-defendants who turn on one another and blame each other for committing the crimes. 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