Case ID: so2d_781/html/0542-01.html
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Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

STATE of Florida, Appellant, v. Jason DELANEY, Appellee.
    No. 5D99-3186.
    District Court of Appeal of Florida, Fifth District.
    April 6, 2001.
    Robert A. Butterworth, Attorney General, Tallahassee, and Ann M. Phillips, Assistant Attorney General, Daytona Beach, for Appellant.
    James B. Gibson, Public Defender, and Rosemarie Farrell, Assistant Public Defender, Daytona Beach, for Appellee.
   PER CURIAM.

AFFIRMED. State v. Rife, 733 So.2d 541 (Fla. 5th DCA 1999). We also grant the State’s request to certify the following question also certified in Rife:

ALTHOUGH WILLINGNESS OR CONSENT OF THE MINOR IS NOT A DEFENSE TO SEXUAL BATTERY OF A MINOR, MAY IT BE CONSIDERED BY THE COURT AS A MITIGATING FACTOR IN SENTENCING?

AFFIRMED; QUESTION CERTIFIED.

COBB, PETERSON and SAWAYA, JJ., concur.