Bostic v. Commonwealth

COLEMAN, Judge.

Tommy Russell Bostic was convicted in a jury trial of two counts of sodomy and one count of contributing to the delinquency of a minor. Bostic argues that he was denied his constitutional right to confront the witnesses against him when the trial court denied his request to impeach a Commonwealth’s witness by introducing evidence of the witness’ juvenile guilty adjudications. We disagree and affirm the convictions.

BACKGROUND

In 1996, Bostic, who was twenty-eight years old at the time, met the victim, Christopher Chittum, who was then fifteen years old. They met through their…