Legal Opinion
Sparks v. State
Wyoming Supreme Court
Decided May 15, 2019No. S-18-0181PublishedCited by 13 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
DAVIS, Chief Justice.
[¶1] Ian Sparks was convicted of furnishing two fifteen-year-old girls with alcohol and sexually abusing them. On appeal, he contends that the district court erred in ordering joinder of the sexual abuse charges relating to the two victims. He further contends that the district court erred and violated his confrontation rights and the right to a complete defense when it excluded evidence of a prior false sexual abuse allegation by one of the victims. We affirm.
ISSUES
[¶2] Mr. Sparks presents two issues on appeal, which we restate as follows:
I. Did the district court abuse…
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