State v. Mathis

ANDERSON, J.:

Aaron Mathis was convicted of attempted criminal sexual conduct in the second degree with a minor and incest. The trial judge sentenced him to life imprisonment without parole for the criminal sexual conduct charge and ten years, concurrent, for the incest charge. Mathis appeals his convictions, contending: (1) his prosecution was barred by the Double Jeopardy Clause of the United States and South Carolina Constitutions; (2) the trial judge erred by admitting evidence of Mathis’s prior bad acts; and (3) the trial judge erred by admitting certain DNA evidence. We affirm.

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