Dygart v. State

In the fall of 2011, Nathan Dygart exchanged messages with someone he thought was a fourteen-year-old girl named Amber. The two discussed sports, television, and parents. They also discussed sex, Dygart becoming increasingly explicit. The discussions escalated, and Dygart eventually drove to Tallahassee's Killearn subdivision, where he planned to have sex with fourteen-year-old "Amber."

When he arrived in Killearn, Dygart learned there was no "Amber"; he had been corresponding with a police detective involved in a sting operation. Officers arrested Dygart, and the State charged him with two…