Valderrama v. State

Appellant raises three issues in this appeal from his convictions for sexual battery and lewd assault. He first claims that the court erred in denying his motion for judgment of acquittal on the lewd assault charge because the corpus delicti was not established before his confession was admitted. However, he failed to object to the admission of the confession on that ground, and his motion for judgment of acquittal did not alert the trial court to this argument. Thus, it is not preserved for appeal. See J.B. v. State, 705 So.2d 1376, 1378 (Fla.1998).

Second, he argues that the court erred in…