Logan v. State

Robert H. Dudley, Justice.

Appellant, who worked at a school for developmentally handicapped children, was convicted on seven counts of rape by deviate sexual activity. He committed the crimes against seven boys who attended the school. He was sentenced to forty years in prison on each count with the sentences to run consecutively. We affirm six of the judgments of conviction, but reduce one to carnal abuse in the third degree.

Appellant’s primary point of appeal concerns the prosecutor’s veiled reference to the appellant’s refusal to testify. The material part of the argument, the objection,…