FL:Immokalee rape trial: Jury finds defendant guilty

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NAPLES — UPDATE: 5:55 P.M.

The jury deliberated less than a half-hour and found Puente guilty of sexual battery, a second-degree felony, and battery, a misdemeanor, in the second assault. Puente showed no emotion, but is whispering to his defense attorney as the judge excuses the jurors.

UPDATE: 5 P.M.

Husband takes the stand in rape trial; judge charges him with contempt

Abel Puente took the stand in his own defense to tell jurors he never raped his wife or forced her to perform a sex act, that she made up that story after he told her he wanted to divorce her.

“We were having marital problems,â€