State v. Denton

OPINION

in which FRANK F. DROWOTA, III, C.J., E. RILEY ANDERSON and JANICE M. HOLDER, JJ., and J.S. (Steve) Daniel, S.J., joined.

The defendant, a physician, was charged in three separate indictments with a total of twenty sexual offenses involving eleven different victims. The counts charged in the indictments were alleged to have occurred over a time span of six years. The trial court denied the defendant’s pre-trial motion to sever the counts for separate trials and granted the State’s motion to consolidate all three indictments for a single trial. The defendant was subsequently found guilty…