State v. Legg

Appellant was convicted of lewd act on a minor. He was sentenced to twelve years’ imprisonment, ordered to be placed on the sex offender registry, and subjected to GPS monitoring. Appellant argued at trial and before this Court that South Carolina Code Annotated section 17-23-175 (2014) — permitting a videotaped forensic interview of an alleged child abuse victim to be played before a jury — arbitrarily allows an alleged victim to testify twice therefore violating his Due Process 1 right to a fair trial under the Fourteenth Amendment. 2 The trial judge ruled the videotape at issue met the…