Granger v. State

RAY, Judge.

Having been convicted of statutory rape1 and child molestation2 for having sexual contact with his then fourteen-year-old niece, appellant Carey Lee Granger appeals and seeks a new trial, contending that his lawyer was ineffective, and that his case was prejudiced by (1) his lawyer’s failure to object to unfair bolstering of the victim’s testimony at trial and to improper argument put forth by the prosecutor during the closing arguments, and (2) the admission into evidence of statements made by Granger while on the phone in the police investigation room, in which he used an…