Bell v. State

In this case, we consider whether certain comments made by a prosecutor were impermissible. Gary Fontaine Bell seeks review of Bell v. State, 33 So.3d 724 (Fla. 1st DCA 2010), in which the First District Court of Appeal affirmed Bell’s convictions and sentences for lewd and lascivious molestation on a victim under twelve years of age by an offender eighteen years of age or older and for failure to appear. The First District addressed, inter alia, the following statement made by the prosecutor during closing argument in regard to the victim’s age, an element of the molestation charge: “[S]o…