Dollar v. State

COBB, Judge.

The defendant appeals from his convictions for solicitation to commit sexual battery on a child1 and solicitation to procure a person *902under age 16 for prostitution.2 The defendant raises several points on appeal. We find only one point to have merit, that the trial court reversibly erred in allowing the state to introduce, over objection, a newspaper article reflecting statements attributed by the reporter to the defendant.

Following the defendant’s arrest, an article appeared in the Florida Today newspaper reporting that fact and containing comments attributed by the reporter to…