Legal Opinion
Letemps v. Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections
District Court, M.D. Florida
Decided July 20, 2015No. Case No. 6:13-cv-718-Orl-31KRSPublishedCited by 1 opinion
1Opinion of the Court
Order
GREGORY A. PRESNELL, District Judge.
I. INTRODUCTION
The Petitioner, Jules Letemps, was convicted of sexual battery and kidnapping on November 21,1989. The conviction, which was primarily based on the victim’s identification of Letemps as the man who attacked her, came despite his testimony *1219(and that of his live-in girlfriend and a roommate) that he was at home and in bed when the attack occurred. There was no physical evidence tying Letemps to the crimes. Initially, testing of a semen stain suggested that he could not have been the rapist. But the FDLE technician who performed the…
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