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Summary: IN THE DISTRICT COURT OF APPEAL OF THE STATE OF FLORIDA FIFTH DISTRICT NOT FINAL UNTIL TIME EXPIRES TO FILE MOTION FOR REHEARING AND DISPOSITION THEREOF IF FILED WILLIAM EDWARD BUBB, Appellant, v. Case No. 5D16-1778 STATE OF FLORIDA, Appellee. _/ Opinion filed August 11, 2017 Appeal from the Circuit Court for Citrus County, Richard A. Howard, Judge. James S. Purdy, Public Defender, and Andrew C. Mich, Assistant Public Defender, Daytona Beach, for Appellant. Pamela Jo Bondi, Attorney General, Tal
Summary: IN THE DISTRICT COURT OF APPEAL OF THE STATE OF FLORIDA FIFTH DISTRICT NOT FINAL UNTIL TIME EXPIRES TO FILE MOTION FOR REHEARING AND DISPOSITION THEREOF IF FILED WILLIAM EDWARD BUBB, Appellant, v. Case No. 5D16-1778 STATE OF FLORIDA, Appellee. _/ Opinion filed August 11, 2017 Appeal from the Circuit Court for Citrus County, Richard A. Howard, Judge. James S. Purdy, Public Defender, and Andrew C. Mich, Assistant Public Defender, Daytona Beach, for Appellant. Pamela Jo Bondi, Attorney General, Tall..
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IN THE DISTRICT COURT OF APPEAL OF THE STATE OF FLORIDA
FIFTH DISTRICT
NOT FINAL UNTIL TIME EXPIRES TO
FILE MOTION FOR REHEARING AND
DISPOSITION THEREOF IF FILED
WILLIAM EDWARD BUBB,
Appellant,
v. Case No. 5D16-1778
STATE OF FLORIDA,
Appellee.
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Opinion filed August 11, 2017
Appeal from the Circuit Court
for Citrus County,
Richard A. Howard, Judge.
James S. Purdy, Public Defender, and
Andrew C. Mich, Assistant Public Defender,
Daytona Beach, for Appellant.
Pamela Jo Bondi, Attorney General,
Tallahassee, and Samuel A. Perrone,
Assistant Attorney General, Daytona
Beach, for Appellee.
PER CURIAM.
After a jury trial, William Bubb was convicted of sexual battery on a person less
than twelve years of age and lewd or lascivious molestation. On appeal, he argues that
the trial court violated his Sixth Amendment1 right of confrontation by permitting the
1 Amend. VI, U.S. Const.
victim’s Child Protection Team (“CPT”) interview video to be admitted into evidence after
the child took the witness stand but refused to testify. We affirm. This alleged error was
not preserved below. See Aills v. Boemi,
29 So. 3d 1105, 1109 (Fla. 2010) (“While no
magic words are required to make a proper objection, . . . the concern articulated in the
objection must be sufficiently specific to inform the court of the perceived error.” (citations
omitted)); Mungin v. State,
932 So. 2d 986, 1003 (Fla. 2006) (holding appellant’s
confrontation issue unpreserved for appeal).
We further conclude that any error in the admission of the CPT interview video
would not have been fundamental. Indeed, as to the sexual battery charge, any error
would have been harmless given: (1) Bubb admitted in a post-arrest interview that he
had penetrated the child’s vagina with his penis; (2) similar out-of-court statements from
the victim were admitted without objection through the testimony of the nurse examiner;
(3) forensic evidence established the existence of semen in the victim’s underwear; and
(4) immediately after the events in question, a witness observed that Bubb was “red,
sweaty, and very nervous,” and the witness was told by the victim, who was walking
awkwardly, that her “Cindy” (a term the family used for vagina) had been touched.
AFFIRMED.
EVANDER, BERGER and WALLIS, JJ., concur.
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