Tag: sex crimes

Jim RosicaDecember 18, 2015
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A Tallahassee-based appeal court panel on Friday split 2-1 over whether a life sentence for touching an 11-year-old girl’s breast over her clothes is cruel and unusual punishment as banned by the U.S. Constitution. The 1st District Court of Appeal affirmed the “lewd or lascivious molestation” conviction and life sentence of Stephen C. Hanf, imprisoned at the Northwest Florida […]

Jim RosicaSeptember 9, 2015
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An appellate court on Wednesday granted a Walton County man’s request for a new trial on sex-crime charges because an alternate juror accidentally sat in on deliberations. Riordan Boblitt, 25, had been charged with lewd or lascivious battery on a teen and attempted sexual battery, according to the decision. A three-judge panel of the 1st District Court […]


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