State v. Hopper

DON E. BURRELL, Judge.

Dewey “Buddy” Hopper (“Defendant”) was convicted, following a jury trial, of forcibly raping J.T. (“Victim”). 1 He was thereafter sentenced as a persistent offender to serve thirty years in the Missouri Department of Corrections. Defendant asserts two points on appeal: 1) that the trial court abused its discretion in not allowing him to present an alibi defense; and 2) that the trial court abused its discretion in not allowing Defendant to present evidence of a subsequent false allegation of sexual assault Victim had made against another individual. Finding merit in…