Florida District Courts of Appeal, 2010

VALENTIN-RODRIGUEZ v. State

VALENTIN-RODRIGUEZ v. State
Florida District Courts of Appeal · Decided April 16, 2010 · Sawaya, Orfinger, Jacobus
32 So. 3d 731; 2010 Fla. App. LEXIS 5044; 2010 WL 1506978 (Southern Reporter, Third Series)

VALENTIN-RODRIGUEZ v. State

Opinion

SAWAYA, J.

Gabriel Alberto Valentin-Rodriguez appeals his judgment and sentence after a jury found him guilty of four counts of sexual battery and two counts of false imprisonment. The trial court gave him two concurrent life sentences on two counts of sexual battery, with a mandatory minimum sentence of twenty-five years as a dangerous sexual felony offender and fifteen years concurrent in prison on one count of false imprisonment. Defendant argues: 1) the court erred by allowing use of the word “victim” to describe the victim of the crimes; 2) the court erred in permitting testimony that Defendant threatened suicide; 3) the court gave faulty jury instructions and verdict forms; and 4) two adjudications for false imprisonment violate double jeopardy.

We affirm as to all issues except the last. As to that issue, the State concedes error. Our review of the record confirms that the concession is proper. Accordingly, we reverse Defendant’s conviction for count one, which charges one of the false imprisonment offenses. We remand this case to the trial court to prepare an amended judgment striking Defendant’s conviction for that count. Resentencing will not be necessary because it appears that the trial court did not sentence Defendant on that count in anticipation of reversal based on double jeopardy grounds.

AFFIRMED in part; REVERSED in part; and REMANDED.

ORFINGER and JACOBUS, JJ., concur.

Case-law data current through December 31, 2025. Source: CourtListener bulk data.