People v. Lopez

Opinion by:

Judge DAILEY.

Defendant, Paul Lopez, appeals the judgments of conviction and sentences entered upon jury verdicts finding him guilty of two counts each of sexual assault on a child by one in a position of trust and sexual assault on a child as part of a pattern of abuse. We affirm.

Defendant, a former teacher in the Denver Public School system, was charged with having performed sex acts eight to ten years earlier with and on two middle school students with whom he had established a mentor relationship. The two students, who were brothers, testified at trial; a third student testified…