Opinion ID: 2630956
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Text: J.P. was 13 years old in the fall of 2006 when she met Magallanez through a mutual friend. Magallanez was 31 years old but spent much of his time with teenagers. J.P. and Magallanez got to know each other over a few weeks by exchanging phone calls, text messages, and e-mail and through social networking websites like MySpace.com. On October 4, 2006, J.P. arranged to meet Magallanez after school. Magallanez picked J.P. up in his car and they drove to the zoo. J.P.'s brother saw them together and told his parents. J.P.'s parents took away her cell phone for a week and told her to stop seeing Magallanez. But, when J.P. got her cell phone back, she and Magallanez resumed their frequent calls and texts. J.P. testified that, on November 1, 2006, J.P. left the home where she was babysitting to meet Magallanez in his car and had sexual intercourse with him in the backseat. In late November, the weekend after Thanksgiving, J.P. spent the night with her friends D.D. and H.H. at D.D.'s sister's house to babysit. Late that evening, J.P. snuck out of the house to see Magallanez, who was at a nearby park. D.D.'s sister found out, and the story eventually made its way back to J.P.'s mother. The next day, J.P.'s mother confronted her, and J.P. eventually said that she had had sex with Magallanez on October 4 at the zoo. J.P. also reported to the police and later to personnel at the Child Advocacy Center that she had sexual intercourse with Magallanez on October 4. On December 7, 2006, Magallanez was arrested and charged with rape (sexual intercourse with a child under the age of 14), a Jessica's Law offense. At the preliminary hearing in this case, J.P. testified under oath that she had had sex with Magallanez on October 4. But, on August 7, 2007, while meeting with the prosecutor in preparation for trial, J.P. disclosed that she had lied about the date and location of the sexual intercourse with Magallanez. She then said she had had sexual intercourse with Magallanez at approximately 8 p.m. on November 21, 2006, in Magallanez' car outside the house where she was babysitting. The same day that J.P. changed her story, the State filed a motion to amend its complaint to change the date of occurrence from October 4 to November 1, 2006. The district judge granted the State's motion the next day, over defense counsel's objection. Trial began 3 days later. The jury convicted Magallanez of rape of J.P., and the district judge sentenced him to life in prison under Jessica's Law. The trial court ordered the sentence to run consecutive to the sentences in the two other cases consolidated for trial.