{"id":368,"date":"2018-05-30T15:11:37","date_gmt":"2018-05-30T19:11:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.stpetersburgsexcrimeslawyer.com\/?p=368"},"modified":"2024-09-06T12:28:54","modified_gmt":"2024-09-06T16:28:54","slug":"multiple-convictions-stand-after-florida-supreme-court-clarifies-sex-solicitation-law","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stpetersburgcriminalattorney.net\/blog\/multiple-convictions-stand-after-florida-supreme-court-clarifies-sex-solicitation-law\/","title":{"rendered":"Multiple Convictions Stand after Florida Supreme Court Clarifies Sex Solicitation Law"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Florida Supreme Court in 2015 clarified its position on when a person can be charged with soliciting sex and traveling after soliciting sex without running afoul of the rule against double jeopardy, which bans multiple convictions for the same crime. In a <a href=\"https:\/\/edca.1dca.org\/DCADocs\/2013\/4977\/134977_1284_05182018_08200832_i.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">recent case<\/a>, Florida\u2019s First District offered some important insight into how appeals courts are interpreting that ruling. Essentially, multiple text or other messages can be considered different solicitations under Florida sex crime laws.<\/p>\n<p>A defendant was charged with two crimes after exchanging sexually explicit text messages with an undercover police officer who he thought was a 14-year-old girl and then traveling to Tallahassee to meet the person for sex. He was convicted of traveling for sex with a child after using a computer to solicit a child for sex and using a computer to solicit a child for sex. He argued on appeal that the convictions violated the rule against double jeopardy by punishing him twice for the same crime.The First District initially rejected the double jeopardy argument but decided to take another look at the case after the Florida Supreme Court ruled in a case called <em>State v. Shelley<\/em>. The high court in that case said solicitation and traveling after solicitation cannot be treated as separate crimes if they are \u201cbased upon the same conduct.\u201d But the First District said that ruling didn\u2019t change the outcome of this defendant&#8217;s case.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAfter <em>Shelley,<\/em> the law is clear that a single solicitation cannot support a conviction for solicitation and a separate conviction for traveling after solicitation,\u201d the court explained. It also said the burden was on the defendant to prove that the convictions violated the double jeopardy rule, which the court concluded he failed to do.<\/p>\n<div class=\"read_more_link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.stpetersburgcriminalattorney.net\/blog\/multiple-convictions-stand-after-florida-supreme-court-clarifies-sex-solicitation-law\/\"  title=\"Continue Reading Multiple Convictions Stand after Florida Supreme Court Clarifies Sex Solicitation Law\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading \u2192<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Florida Supreme Court in 2015 clarified its position on when a person can be charged with soliciting sex and traveling after soliciting sex without running afoul of the rule against double jeopardy, which bans multiple convictions for the same crime. 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