Fleitas v. State

After this Court reversed and remanded for a new trial in Fleitas v. State, 867 So.2d 512 (Fla. 3d DCA 2004), the defendant, Carlos Fleitas (“Fleitas”), was tried and convicted for a second time on multiple counts of false imprisonment, lewd and lascivious molestation on a child, lewd and lascivious assault on a child, lewd and lascivious acts involving a child, and battery on a child with bodily fluids. Fleitas appeals from the judgment of conviction and sentence for these counts. 1 For the reasons set forth below, we affirm.

From 1997 to 2001, Fleitas lived with his girlfriend, Maria V., and…