My question involves criminal law for the state of: Florida
I pled 12 years ago to the charge of capital sexual battery, and was deemed a sexual predator.
I had NO idea what I was doing.
To make a very long story short, I did not do anything, I was then engaged to my now wife. She had 4 kids, one was (at the time) 26, 12, 7, and 4 yrs old. Her family, sister brother in laws, and such (no mother and father both dead) disliked of me in 2 major areas, first i was not Italian, I was Spanish, 2nd I did not "bend" to there whims (like my wife’s ex-husband did) because they have lots of money.
Well, her oldest really did not like me, she was like your not good enough for my mother blah blah blah thing, and I said, your engaged to your uncle, you have a 2 kids, and don't even live at home so, mind your own f--- business and leave us lone.
The other 3 kids thought the sun rose and set by me, There father was not around a lot, and i8 never having kids of my own, did all I could for them, sat and played games, colored, homework, cooked, baked, ect... you get the idea.
Well her oldest after a about 2 years started to seam like she was coming around, talking to me, and asking me to do her favors such as come and fix a light, hang a fan, plumbing, and such, I knew it might just be using me, but I was willing to do what it took to unite them all again.
One summer she asked if I was doing anything since I have major surgery and was i9nn a cast to my whole left arm, I replied no, to wit she said if I would mind watching my step_grandaughter while she went to the keys for a while, I said no problem. You see all 3 of my step kids(my wife’s other kids) are girls, so what’s one more, and she was the same age as my youngest one.
I had a pool put up in the back yard for them, (above ground) and I would go and watch them go in the pool, play video games, cards coloring and such. But I did notice my step granddaughter was acting kind of weird, she wasn't talking much, and when i scold her once she replied with " Mommy said you can't tell me what to do, your not m real grand-dad"
i didn't think much and forgot about it, she came and picked her up, 3 days later she told my wife she was filing charges against me for sexual misconduct of her daughter ( my wife grand daughter). My wife went ballistic, my kids went wild also.
Well, all in all, my kids were taken out of the house and let stay with there biological dad while this was going on. I found out that she called her sisters and promised them money clothes, dolls, radios, and such to say I tried to do things to them also, she told my wife if you leave him, i will drop the charges, they even went as far as trying to bribe the kids real father, and when that did not work, they fired him and took away a company car, and told him he had to move from there apt building, if he did not do what he said, he did not, and moved.
All this was testified to in court by my wife, kids, and the real kids father. Adn the icing on the cake was when the judge interviewed the grand daughter, she admitted that the mother told her what to say the night before!
All this was over looked and they didn't care, the judge commented it “doesn’t matter”. I was still going to trial, problem was, 10 months in jail, fighting to not get raped, or stabbed since I was considered a predator and it is something criminals hate, and my wife had run out of monies between layers, food rent and such, the lights were getting ready to be turned off, and she was going to get evicted since rent was back due, when they made the plea barging, and I was told that all i had to do was some probation, I was like "ha, I can do that on my head (I had done probation before for drugs, i was addicted to cocaine years ago.)
I needed to get out, and start to make money to feed and keep my family housed, and I was Never told that I would be on some internet list, that my "rules" changed whenever they decided they wanted it to. Now I have moved 3 times due to neighbors being mean or cruel just cause as soon as I move in the dam FDLE post flyers, Please, I beg anyone, is there something I can do, Can I claim duress and change my plea, can I have a judge re-look at it, anything, I have paid enough for something I never did, and so has my family.
Thank you

