Legal Opinion
T.P. v. State
Court of Criminal Appeals of Alabama
Decided October 29, 2004No. CR-03-0574PublishedCited by 22 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
WISE, Judge.
The appellant, T.P.,1 was convicted of one count of first-degree sexual abuse, a violation of § 13A-6-66, Ala.Code 1975. Because he had two prior felony convictions, he was sentenced as a habitual offender to life imprisonment.
The evidence presented at trial tended to establish that on July 18, 2002, Investigator Dean McGowan of the Baldwin County Sheriffs Department was contacted by the Baldwin County Department of Human Resources (“DHR”) concerning a suspected case of child sexual abuse. McGowan and Stephanie Buehler, a DHR social worker, interviewed eight-year-old B.P. (“the…
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