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Pensacola Milton Ice Cream Man Media Madness Again

By M. James Jenkins, Esq.

The lead story on Pensacola television last night and in the Pensacola News Journal today was a lead story involving an elderly man who was accused of molesting two teenage girls while the girls worked on his ice cream truck two years ago. I represented this old fellow at trial in February of 2006 and the all female jury, after considering the actual evidence against him, cleared him of all charges relating to molesting either girl. Unbeknown st to me, the elderly man, who has only a small social security pension on which to live, had recently joined with another elderly man and were selling ice cream in the same areas where he sold ice cream prior to the charges being brought against him two years ago. Apparently, someone or some people in the neighborhoods reported to the media, or reported to the Santa Rosa Sheriff's Office who themselves reported to the media, that he had attempted to lure one of the children to get into the van to pick out their ice cream...continue to full post

Full post as published by Florida Criminal Law Blog on March 29, 2007 (boomark / email).