Roop v. State

BOEHM, Justice.

James M. Roop, Jr. was convicted of child molesting as a Class A felony, neglect of a dependent as a Class B felony, battery as a Class D felony, and of being a habitual offender. He was sentenced to concurrent terms of fifty years for child molesting, fifteen years for neglect of a dependent, and three years for battery. The child molesting conviction was enhanced by thirty years for the habitual, for an aggregate sentence of eighty years imprisonment. In this direct appeal Roop contends that (1) the trial court erred in excluding evidence that his father-in-law may have…