Case Name: Steven MILLER, Appellant, v. STATE of Florida, Appellee
Court: Florida District Court of Appeal
Jurisdiction: Florida
Decision Date: 1997-03-05
Citations: 693 So. 2d 598
Docket Number: No. 95-01625
Parties: Steven MILLER, Appellant, v. STATE of Florida, Appellee.
Judges: PARKER, A.C.J., and PATTERSON, J., concur.
Reporter: Southern Reporter, Second Series
Volume: 693
Pages: 598–598

Head Matter:
Steven MILLER, Appellant, v. STATE of Florida, Appellee.
No. 95-01625.
District Court of Appeal of Florida, Second District.
March 5, 1997.
James Marion Moorman, Public Defender, and Julius J. Aulisio, Assistant Public Defender, Bartow, for Appellant.
Robert A. Butterworth, Attorney General, Tallahassee, and Erica M. Raffel, Assistant Attorney General, Tampa, for Appellee.

Opinion:
BLUE, Judge.
Steven Miller appeals his convictions for four counts of capital sexual battery and one count of lewd fondling. We find merit only in his argument that the State failed to produce sufficient evidence to support the lewd fondling conviction. "[A] defendant's confession to a crime cannot be the sole basis for that defendant's conviction for that crime; there must be prima facie evidence of the crime charged independent of the defendant's admission." Johnson v. State, 569 So.2d 872, 873 (Fla. 2d DCA 1990), review denied, 581 So.2d 167 (Fla.1991). Accordingly, we reverse the lewd fondling conviction. In all other respects, we affirm.
PARKER, A.C.J., and PATTERSON, J., concur.