Legal Opinion
State v. Flood
Tennessee Supreme Court
Decided March 15, 2007PublishedCited by 57 opinions
1Opinion of the Court 1
OPINION
2Opinion of the Court · BarkerWilliam M. Barker, C.J.
in which JANICE M. HOLDER, CORNELIA A. CLARK, and GARY R. WADE, JJ., joined.
The defendant was convicted of four counts of rape of a child in violation of Tennessee Code Annotated section 39-13-522. At the trial, the defendant attempted to present testimony from the victim’s father about statements made by the victim. The victim had made two statements to her father that the defendant argued rebutted the victim’s testimony and suggest ed that a third party had committed the crimes. The trial court excluded the evidence because the testimony was hearsay and because the defendant had…
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