STATE of Florida, Appellant,
v.
Paul PASKO, Appellee.
District Court of Appeal of Florida, Second District.
*681 Robert A. Butterworth, Attorney General, Tallahassee, and Ha T. Dao, Assistant Attorney General, Tampa, for Appellant.
Donald P. Day, of Berry, Day & McFee, Naples, for Appellant.
DAVIS, Judge.
The State challenges the circuit court's order dismissing the information against Paul Pasko. The information charged Pasko with seventy-seven counts of possession of child pornography, in violation of section 827.071(5), Florida Statutes (1999). We reverse.
The charges arose when Pasko was found to be in possession of seventy-seven photographs of nude female children. In response to the charges, Pasko filed a motion to dismiss pursuant to Florida Rule of Criminal Procedure 3.190(c)(4). He alleged that based on the undisputed facts set forth in his motion, the State would be unable to establish a prima facie case because the pictures did not violate Florida law. The State acknowledged that the facts were undisputed but argued that the pictures did depict "sexual conduct" and thus did violate the statute. The trial judge reviewed the photographs and granted the motion to dismiss. In doing so, he made specific findings that the pictures, as a matter of law, did not depict sexual conduct. The State appeals that order.
On a motion to dismiss, the State is required only to show a prima facie case. State v. Hunwick,
The purpose of a motion to dismiss is to allow a pretrial determination of the law of the case when the facts are not in dispute. Styron v. State,
We recognize that nudity alone does not constitute sexual conduct. See Schmitt v. State,
Reversed and remanded.
FULMER and GREEN, JJ., Concur.
