State v. Jennings
Supreme Court of South Carolina
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Pleicones
Appellant was convicted of two counts of committing a lewd act upon a minor and was sentenced to fifty-five months’ imprisonment for the first charge and fifteen years, suspended upon the service of fifty months and three years’ probation for *476the second charge, with the sentences to run consecutively. Appellant appeals his convictions, arguing the trial court erred in allowing the State to introduce the written reports of a forensic interviewer. We reverse.
FACTS
Appellant was a neighbor of the three minor alleged victims (“oldest child,” “middle child,” and “youngest child”), aged eleven,…
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