State v. Harris

PARKER, Justice.

The issues before this Court are whether the Court of Appeals erred in holding (i) that the trial court erred in excluding evidence of the victim’s prior sexual encounter, and (ii) that prejudicial error occurred in defendant’s conviction for common law robbery. For the reasons discussed herein, we reverse the decision of the Court of Appeals on these two issues.

Defendant Vincent Lamont Harris was indicted on 24 June 2002 for the offenses of first-degree kidnapping, second-degree rape, and common law robbery. Defendant was tried at the 24 February 2003 criminal session of…