Cleveland v. State

OPINION

MANNHEIMER, Judge.

Steven Cleveland was convicted of second-degree sexual assault and second-degree assault for sexually penetrating a woman with a wide-diameter object, inflicting serious and lasting internal injuries. 1 In this appeal, Cleveland asserts that the trial judge improperly prevented him from presenting evidence suggesting that these crimes were committed by someone else. In particular, Cleveland argues that the trial judge should have allowed him to present evidence that another man, Harry Morena, beat the same woman on the head with a wooden chair leg about five months…