Sharp v. State

|!Freddie L. Sharp III was tried by a jury and convicted of-rape, for which he was sentenced to twenty-five years in the Arkansas Department of Correction. On appeal, he contends that the trial court erred in denying his motion for a directed verdict of acquittal; in refusing to allow introduction of evidence that another person had made sexual advances on the. victim; in denying him allegedly exculpatory materials held by the State; in denying him access to the victim’s file at the Arkansas State Crime Laboratory; in not allowing him to review reports of child abuse involving the victim, and…