More Clarification on Double Jeopardy challenges in solicitation cases
In 2015, the Florida Supreme Court decided State v. Shelley, which held that double jeopardy prohibits separate convictions based on the same solicitation conduct. Multiple charges for the same course of illegal conduct were considered double Jeopardy. To over-simplify; soliciting a minor and traveling to meet a minor are two separate crimes, but to be convicted of both, you need
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