T.L.D. v. State

Full title: T.L.D., A CHILD, Appellant, v. STATE OF FLORIDA, Appellee.

Court: DISTRICT COURT OF APPEAL OF THE STATE OF FLORIDA FIFTH DISTRICT

Date published: Mar 29, 2019

266 So. 3d 881 (Fla. Dist. Ct. App. 2019)

Opinion

Case No. 5D18-1315

03-29-2019

T.L.D., a Child, Appellant, v. STATE of Florida, Appellee.

James S. Purdy, Public Defender, and Ailene S. Rogers, Assistant Public Defender, Daytona Beach, for Appellant. Ashley Moody, Attorney General, Tallahassee, and Kristen L. Davenport, Assistant Attorney General, Daytona Beach, for Appellee.

PER CURIAM.

James S. Purdy, Public Defender, and Ailene S. Rogers, Assistant Public Defender, Daytona Beach, for Appellant.

Ashley Moody, Attorney General, Tallahassee, and Kristen L. Davenport, Assistant Attorney General, Daytona Beach, for Appellee.

PER CURIAM.

AFFIRMED. See State v. Raleigh , 686 So.2d 621, 622–23 (Fla. 5th DCA 1996) (rejecting argument that section 800.04, Florida Statutes, is unconstitutional as applied to defendant because it precluded the defense of consent of minor victim, observing that "[i]t cannot be of any constitutional or logical significance to the child victim if the perpetrator is only seventeen—sixteen ... or ten").

WALLIS, LAMBERT, and GROSSHANS, JJ., concur.