Turner v. State

Phipps, Judge.

A jury found David Turner guilty of false imprisonment and two counts of child molestation for confining twelve-year-old T. C. in a room and placing his hand and his mouth on her breast. On appeal, he contends that the trial court erred by allowing a videotape of T. C.’s interview about the incident to go out with the jury during its deliberation, by refusing to redact commentary on the videotape which he claims improperly bolstered T. C.’s credibility, and by failing to merge the false imprisonment count into the child molestation counts. He also contends that the prosecutor…