Case Name: Charles Brian BERNARD, Appellant, v. STATE of Florida, Appellee
Court: Florida District Court of Appeal
Jurisdiction: Florida
Decision Date: 1995-03-14
Citations: 651 So. 2d 817
Docket Number: No. 94-112
Parties: Charles Brian BERNARD, Appellant, v. STATE of Florida, Appellee.
Judges: ERVIN and JOANOS, JJ., concur.
Reporter: Southern Reporter, Second Series
Volume: 651
Pages: 817–818

Head Matter:
Charles Brian BERNARD, Appellant, v. STATE of Florida, Appellee.
No. 94-112.
District Court of Appeal of Florida, First District.
March 14, 1995.
Joanna A. Mauer, Panacea, for appellant.
Robert A. Butterworth, Atty. Gen., Patrick Martin, Asst. Atty. Gen., Tallahassee, for ap-pellee.

Opinion:
WOLF, Judge.
Appellant challenges the final judgment and sentence based on convictions for sexual battery and lewd and lascivious assault. Appellant raises a number of issues, only one of which has merit. Appellant's conviction and sentence for lewd and lascivious conduct must be reversed where the conduct which resulted in conviction arose out of the same act for which appellant was convicted of sexual battery. Convictions for both charges based on the same act are impermissible. State v. Hightower, 509 So.2d 1078 (Fla. 1987); see also McConn v. State, 648 So.2d 837 (Fla. 2d DCA 1995). As in McConn, the ongoing sexual assault in this case cannot be broken into two sequential crimes.
Affirmed in part and reversed in part.
ERVIN and JOANOS, JJ., concur.