Joseph Altiro Turner v. Commonwealth of Virginia

HUFF, Judge.

Joseph A. Turner (“appellant”) appeals his convictions of three counts of aggravated sexual battery, in violation of Code § 18.2-67.3(A)(1). Following a bench trial in the Circuit Court of the City of Norfolk (“trial court”), appellant was sentenced to thirty years’ imprisonment in the Department of Corrections with seventeen years suspended. Appellant presents two assignments of error on appeal. First, appellant contends the trial court erred in allowing C.M. (the child victim) to write certain portions of her testimony, rather than speaking it, as this violated appellant’s Sixth…