State v. Rogers

This appeal raises two issues: (1) whether a decision granting a motion to sever a similar prosecution prevented the trial judge from admitting evidence of the severed criminal activity during the state’s case-in-chief; and (2) whether the trial judge erred in allowing evidence of constancy of accusation as to uncharged misconduct. We find no error.

After a trial to a jury the defendant, Bruce Rogers, was found guilty of sexual assault in the first degree and larceny in the fourth degree and received a total effective sentence of not less than ten nor more than twenty years. He appeals from…