State v. Dopp

LANSING, Judge.

After a jury trial, Sidney David Dopp was convicted of battery with intent to commit rape and was sentenced to a fixed term of ten years’ incarceration. Dopp now appeals the conviction, alleging that there were a number of errors during the course of his trial that require reversal of the judgment. Dopp also asserts that he received ineffective assistance of counsel. He challenges, as well, the sentence imposed by the trial court. We affirm.

I. FACTS

On April 21, 1989, Dopp, while wearing only a shirt, attacked twenty-two-year old Tami Zervas as she was walking down the sidewalk…