815 So. 2d 698 - Glover v. State’s Empirical Analysis

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8 state decisions

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1. “Indeed, it seems that if the age of the victim (under twelve) is an element of the offense (and this is recognized by the Standard Jury Instruction on sexual battery of a victim under twelve which was given by the court in the instant case), then the age of the defendant, set out in the same section of the statute creating the offense, should also be.”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. Insko v. State · 863 So. 2d 236 - Glover v. State

2. “the jury could not reasonably have found [Glover] to have been less than eighteen. For several days, they viewed this thirty-seven year old defendant sitting in the court room. Further, [Glover's] booking admission that he was born in 1964 was admitted into evidence, and there was no evidence to the contrary.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 863 So. 2d 236 - Glover v. State