642 So. 2d 769 - Bowden v. State’s Empirical Analysis

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6 state decisions

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1. “may have a very definite medical meaning, the word as used in the statute is a term of art, which connotes”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. State v. Pate · 738 So. 2d 415 - Richards v. State

2. “Given the strict medical definition of vagina, the only way the vagina could be reached is through penetration. However, the statute defining sexual battery provides for “vaginal penetration by, or union with, the sexual organ of anoth- [It] is clear that the Legislature intended that “union” mean something other than penetration.... [C]ontact alone, between the sexual organ of the offender and the mouth, anus, or vagina of the victim, is sufficient to convict.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Myles v. State

3. “Taber's Cyclopedia Medical Dictionary, 783 (14th Ed. 1982); accord Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary, 1433 (26th Ed. 1985). Under this strict medical definition of vagina, the only way the vagina could be reached is by penetration. However, subsection 794.011(1)(h) speaks of”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. State v. Pate