SEMINOLE COUNTY, Fla. – The man accused of attacking a woman on the Seminole Wekiva Trail did not appear in court on Wednesday as expected.
Instead, a judge granted a motion to continue sentencing in Patrick Gamache’s Seminole Wekiva Trail sexual battery case, pushing the next court date to May 19.
Gamache, 20, is asking a judge to throw out his no-contest plea, just weeks before he was set to be sentenced.
No date has been set to hear that motion.
Gamache pleaded no contest in March to sexual battery charges. But his new attorney filed a motion last week to withdraw that plea, claiming Gamache’s previous attorney forced him into accepting it.
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Gamache was arrested in August after deputies say he forced a woman to the ground and assaulted her near the Seminole Wekiva Trail. Deputies found him less than 24 hours later — shirtless and shoeless — standing on the on-ramp to I-4 Eastbound near State Road 434.
At the time of his arrest, Gamache had just been released from jail in Miami days earlier. That release was connected to a 2023 robbery case.