State v. Patterson

BECTON, Judge.

On 26 May 1982, a Mecklenburg County jury found defendant, Charles Patterson, Jr., guilty of committing a second degree sexual offense by manually manipulating and orally stimulating the penis of his fifteen-year-old stepson. From a judgment imposing the maximum prison term allowed by law for this offense, forty years, defendant appeals.

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Defendant brings forward three arguments on appeal. He contends the trial court erred (1) by allowing the State to introduce the stepson’s testimony concerning as many as fifty prior similar offenses; (2) in denying his motion for mistrial; and…