Legal Opinion

Moreland v. State

Indiana Court of Appeals

Decided November 5, 1998No. 20A03-9712-CR-450PublishedCited by 16 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

OPINION

KIRSCH, Judge.

After a jury trial, Tracy L. Moreland was convicted of child molesting, a Class C felony. 1 He raises the following issues on appeal:

I.Whether the victim’s testimony was inherently unreliable and incredibly dubious and therefore insufficient to support Moreland’s conviction.

II. Whether the trial court improperly admitted the victim’s prior consistent statements by allowing a social worker and a police detective to testify as to what the victim had told them.

III. Whether the prosecutor’s comment that the evidence was “unrefuted” was an improper comment on More-land’s…

2Cases cited23 opinions

  1. United States v. EllisCourt of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit · 1997
  2. Modesitt v. StateIndiana Supreme Court · 1991
  3. Moore v. StateIndiana Supreme Court · 1996
  4. Brown v. StateIndiana Supreme Court · 1998
  5. Tillman v. StateIndiana Supreme Court · 1994

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3Cited by16 opinions

  1. Cohen v. StateIndiana Court of Appeals · 1999
  2. Thomas King v. State of IndianaIndiana Court of Appeals · 2016
  3. Hancock v. StateIndiana Court of Appeals · 2000
  4. Bassett v. StateIndiana Supreme Court · 2008
  5. Parks v. StateIndiana Court of Appeals · 2000

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