Alvarez v. State

ON MOTION FOR REHEARING GRANTED

The State seeks rehearing of our opinion of March 27, 2002, by which we reversed the convictions of Hector Manuel Alvarez and remanded for a new trial. We grant the State’s motion; withdraw our opinion of March 27; and substitute the following in its place.

Hector Manuel Alvarez appeals from judgments of conviction for numerous counts of sexual battery on a minor. We affirm.

Outside the presence of the jury, the State sought to exclude the statement of Anachaka Perez, a friend of the victim’s, that the victim had stated in a telephone conversation that “her [the…