Sexual Battery Case

May 14, 2008: The Florida Supreme Court affirmed the lower district court’s ruling that reversed the capital sexual battery conviction of Rodolfo Contreras, who was given a mandatory life sentence for allegedly abusing his daughter when she was 9 years old; at the time of his trial, the State violated his constitutional right of confrontation by not presenting the testimony of the alleged victim, but instead played a videotaped interview of her.