State v. Martin

BAKES, Chief Justice.

Defendant Larry Joe Martin appeals his conviction and sentence for second degree burglary and attempted rape as enhanced pursuant to the repeat sex offender statute. Martin argues that the trial court committed reversible error by allowing testimony from two of Martin’s previous sex offense victims. Martin asserts that (1) the details of the prior attacks were not so similar to those of the charged crime so as to assist in proving identity, and (2) the circumstances of those attacks were too remote, in that they occurred ten and twelve years before the alleged attempted…