State v. King

BRYANT, Judge.

Where a physician testified to common characteristics she had observed in sexually abused children, the trial court did not err in allowing her testimony, and where the trial court denied the State’s motion to hold defense counsel in criminal contempt, defendant did not receive ineffective assistance of counsel.

On 12 September 2011, a Buncombe County Grand Jury indicted defendant on thirteen counts of indecent liberties with a child, two counts of rape of a child by an adult, and eleven counts of statutory rape. Each indictment alleged that the victim was Kimberly 1 , a girl age…